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

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
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

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

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