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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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