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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Juvenal

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise

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