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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Plutarch

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
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear 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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset

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