A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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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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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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Come and take them.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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