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Honesty is admired, and starves.

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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
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
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray

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