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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.

Plutarch

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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 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
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young

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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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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