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

Plutarch

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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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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