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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.

Plutarch

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Togetherness
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
PLUTARCH

Change Deep Friendship Myself
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.
PLUTARCH

Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
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
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
PLUTARCH

Deep Friendship Struggle
Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCH

One Liner Poetry Silence
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
PLUTARCH

Literature Myself
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCH

Difficult God True
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.
PLUTARCH

Man Philosophy World
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH

Death Nation Rich
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
PLUTARCH

Regret Remember Talk

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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