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Painting is silent poetry.

Plutarch

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
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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Determination Future Oneself
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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 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
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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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