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Neither blame nor praise yourself.

Plutarch

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
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
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

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