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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Juvenal

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise

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