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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

~Plutarch

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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Character is long-standing habit.

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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