Plutarch: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics 1960) [IBR2026] (opens in new tab)

We find these examples in the actions of good men, which implant an eager rivalry and a keen desire to imitate them in the minds of those who have sought them out…. …. Fortune we prize for the good things that we may possess and enjoy from her, but virtue for the good deeds we […]