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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
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
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
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
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
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
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
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Atheist Believe Fear God Man

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