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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.

Plutarch

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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light 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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Change Deep Friendship Myself
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
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

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