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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.

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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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 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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.

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