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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
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
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
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 does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music

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