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Honesty is admired, and starves.

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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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner

Honesty is admired, and starves.

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