Plutarch

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.