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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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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Art Creation Deserve
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

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