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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
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
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
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
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 whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time

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