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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
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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Nature Wisdom

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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