To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
PLUTARCHThose 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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Come and take them.
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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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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Character is simply a habit long continued.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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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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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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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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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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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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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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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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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Painting is silent poetry.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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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