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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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