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

Plutarch

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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
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
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
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
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man 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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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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