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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine

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