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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

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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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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