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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

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Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner

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