Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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