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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union

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