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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
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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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