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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Plutarch

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism 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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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

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