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Honesty is admired, and starves.

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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine

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