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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

The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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 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
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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
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

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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