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

Plutarch

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
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear 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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself

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