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

Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
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
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing

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