Plutarch

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.

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.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.