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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.

Plutarch

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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset

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