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Character is simply a habit long continued.

Plutarch

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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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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Evil Live Man Victim
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity

Character is simply a habit long continued.

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