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

Juvenal

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
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
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White

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