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The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

Plutarch

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself

The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

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The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.

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