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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
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 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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

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