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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?

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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing

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