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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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