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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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
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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