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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.

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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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 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
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
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
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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit

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