Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCHTo the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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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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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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 a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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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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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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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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Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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