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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.

Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
PLUTARCH

Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
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
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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
Painting is silent poetry.
PLUTARCH

One Liner Poetry Silence
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
PLUTARCH

Character Habit One Liner

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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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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