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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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