"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave."
-Sallust
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"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."
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"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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"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
-Sallust
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"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."
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"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
-Jude Law
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
-Ramakrishna
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
-Lenny Kravitz
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
-Ovid
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
-William Hague
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
-Phyllis Diller
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