Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Plutarco · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 472

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Plutarco · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 375

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

It is an observation no less just than common that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Plutarco · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 452