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Honesty is admired, and starves.

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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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
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
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing

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