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Prosperity Quotes by Plutarch
- Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world…
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world…
More Prosperity Quotes
- Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus
- We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. — Aeschylus
- The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger
- One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working… — Susan Sontag
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be… — Mark Twain