Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENALMany individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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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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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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