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

Plutarch

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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
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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