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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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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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
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
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
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
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
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing

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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