An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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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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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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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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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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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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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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Painting is silent poetry.
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