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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
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
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
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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

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