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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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

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