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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

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
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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Atheist Believe Fear God Man
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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
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
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

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