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

Plutarch

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right

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