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

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Fear Memories Myself Pain
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual

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