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May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?

Plutarch

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
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
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
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 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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.
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Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh

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