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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

Plutarch

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy

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