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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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