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

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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
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
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
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal

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