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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

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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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice 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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

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