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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.

Plutarch

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
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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
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
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
The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
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Evil Live Man Victim
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right

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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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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