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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
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

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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