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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.

Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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.
PLUTARCH

Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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.
PLUTARCH

Evil Live Man Victim
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
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCH

One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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
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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
PLUTARCH

Animal Live Philosophy Right

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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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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