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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

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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
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

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