May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
PLUTARCHPainting is silent poetry.
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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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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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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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It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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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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