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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
PLUTARCH

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
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit 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
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
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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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

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