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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

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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
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

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