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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

Plutarch

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
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
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
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
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 truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
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

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