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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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
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 a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
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
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

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