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

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 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
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness 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
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 truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
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

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

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