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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.

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.
PLUTARCH

Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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
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
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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 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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence

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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