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.
PLUTARCHCourage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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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.
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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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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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Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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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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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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