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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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