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

Plutarch

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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
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
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

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

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