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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom

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