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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.

Plutarch

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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 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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
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
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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 part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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

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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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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