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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

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