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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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

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