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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
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 someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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

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