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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
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
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
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
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice 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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
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

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