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Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
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
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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence 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
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing

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