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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

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