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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

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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
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
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
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

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