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

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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing

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

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