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

Plutarch

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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

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