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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Juvenal

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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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