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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue

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