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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

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
PLUTARCH

Advice Learning Live Man True
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
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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 whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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 words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
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
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
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

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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