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

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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
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
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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

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

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