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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCH

Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCH

Happiness Talk Yourself
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
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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
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
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
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

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