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

Plutarch

Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
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
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
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
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
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Darkness Sufficient Vice Virtue
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
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
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
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
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
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Happiness Talk Yourself
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom

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