It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCHTo find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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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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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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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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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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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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