Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief ‘s face.
It is difficult not to write satire.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.