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

Plutarch

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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
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Fire Light Mindset
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
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
Neither blame nor praise yourself.
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Blame One Liner Praise Self Love Yourself
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Death Fight Rich War
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 whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
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
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
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
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Determination Future Oneself
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing

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

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