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

Plutarch

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

Advice Learning Live Man True
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
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
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
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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

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