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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Plutarch

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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
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
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner

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