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

Plutarch

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
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Anger Man Power Savage
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
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
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 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
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Deep Listen Motivational Talk Yourself
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
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
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
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
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
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
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
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
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
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
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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Change Deep Friendship Myself
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

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