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Character is simply a habit long continued.

Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
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
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
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself

Character is simply a habit long continued.

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