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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

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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 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
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
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
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
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
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.
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Excellence Knowledge Material Myself Power

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