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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Juvenal

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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

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