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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
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
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
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
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
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
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
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner

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