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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
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
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
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
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset

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