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Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
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

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