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Plutarch

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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
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
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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
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
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

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