Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
PLUTARCHCourage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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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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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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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.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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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.
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Painting is silent poetry.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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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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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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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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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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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Come and take them.
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