“Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

—  Plutarch

The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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