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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
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
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
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom

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