Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise

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