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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage

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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