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

Plutarch

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.
PLUTARCH

Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
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
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
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
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
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Soul Spiritual
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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

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