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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

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
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
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
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle

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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