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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.

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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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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize

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