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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature 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
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

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