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The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Juvenal

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve

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