Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENALHonesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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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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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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