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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

Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
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 whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
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
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man

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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