Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHThe whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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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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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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