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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Juvenal

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent 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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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