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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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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Impossible Man Myself
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
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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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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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Confidence Nature Success Virtue
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

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