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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

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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
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
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
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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Evil Live Man Victim
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
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
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
Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Confidence Nature Success Virtue
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset

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