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

Plutarch

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
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
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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Myself Thinking Young
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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 fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
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Evil Live Man Victim
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
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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