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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

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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 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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word

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