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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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