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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.

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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
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 truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
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
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom

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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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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