❝ Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. Plutarch
❝ How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato’s maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery. Plutarch
❝ “This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer.” Plutarch