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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCH

Death Fight Rich War
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.
PLUTARCH

Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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.
PLUTARCH

Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
PLUTARCH

Difficult God True
Character is simply a habit long continued.
PLUTARCH

Character Habit One Liner
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.
PLUTARCH

Confidence Nature Success Virtue
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
PLUTARCH

Philosophy Togetherness
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
PLUTARCH

Friendship Grief Prosperity
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
PLUTARCH

Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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.
PLUTARCH

Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
PLUTARCH

Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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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