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.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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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 is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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