To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.