The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
PLUTARCH
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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.
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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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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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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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