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

A Plutarch quote

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782 Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
763 All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
780 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.
856 Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
761 Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

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