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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

Plutarch

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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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

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