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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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
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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage Oneself Philosophy
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
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

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