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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

Juvenal

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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 tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

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