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There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.

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The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

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As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

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Born: 100
Died: 160 (aged 60)
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