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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Plutarch

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
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
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
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 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
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

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