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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

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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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
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
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

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