The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
SALLUSTBut few prize honour more than money.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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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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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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