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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?

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Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse 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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner

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