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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
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

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

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