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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.

Plutarch

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
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
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
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
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
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

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