Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance … - Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 – 120) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.

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Native Name: L. Mestrius Plutarchus • Πλούταρχος

Alternative Names: Plutarchus • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus • Plutarchos • Plutarch of Chaeronea • Ploutarchos

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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

...Силата на словото се състои в умението да се изрази много с малко думи.

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It is the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their deaths, and that the envy which evil men conceive against them never outlives them long; some have the happiness even to see it die before them; but in Numa's case, also, the fortunes of the succeeding kings served as foils to set off the brightness of his reputation.

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

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