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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Juvenal

Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing

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