"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
"We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most."
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Source: Symposiacs. Book by Plutarch, book VIII. Question IX. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.
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