No one can live happily who looks only to himself and wants ... - Plutarch

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and wants to turn everything to his own advantage."

Plutarch Happiness

Historian Biographer Greece (Chaeronea) 46–120

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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

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