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

Plutarch

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence

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