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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
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 find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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

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