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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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