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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

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Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

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