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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

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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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 like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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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