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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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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
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

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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