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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem

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