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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
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
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy

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