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

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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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
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
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
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
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
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise

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