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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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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Determination Future Oneself
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
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Fear Memories Myself Pain
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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 superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man

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