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Character is simply a habit long continued.

Plutarch

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
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
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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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

Character is simply a habit long continued.

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