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Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

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.
PLUTARCH

Feeling Greatness Nature Shame
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
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
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
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Fear Memories Myself Pain
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
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
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
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.
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Character Goodness Greatness Man
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.

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