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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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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Evil Live Man Victim
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
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
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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Deep Friendship Struggle
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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