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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
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
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise

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