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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

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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 truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word

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