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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.

Plutarch

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
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
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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 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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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

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