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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse 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
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

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