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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Plutarch

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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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 superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man
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
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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

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