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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.

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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
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

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