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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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

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