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To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

Plutarch

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 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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

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