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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

Plutarch

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
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 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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
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
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

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

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