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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical

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Plutarch
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Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. 11.

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