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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Plutarch

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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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 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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
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

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