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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

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
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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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Determination Future Oneself
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man

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