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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.

Plutarch

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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
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
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
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 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
They insist upon the shaving of the mustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.
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Myself Thinking Young
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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

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