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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

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