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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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