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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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 find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
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
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 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

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

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