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Neither blame nor praise yourself.

Plutarch

We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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 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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
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
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
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
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
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

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