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

Plutarch

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
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
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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh

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