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Honesty is admired, and starves.

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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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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White

Honesty is admired, and starves.

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