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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue

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