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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 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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
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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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

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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