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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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