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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous

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