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

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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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 always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short

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

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