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Character is simply a habit long continued.

Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Confidence Nature Success Virtue
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Fear Memories Myself Pain
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word

Character is simply a habit long continued.

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