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Painting is silent poetry.

Plutarch

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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

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