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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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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
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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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
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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Deep Friendship Struggle
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
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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Evil Live Man Victim

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

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