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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason

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