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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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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Man Philosophy World
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

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