Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCHMusic, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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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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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Come and take them.
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May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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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Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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