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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise

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