Plutarch

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.