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

Sallust

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
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
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
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
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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

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

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