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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
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

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