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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union

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