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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.

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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.

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