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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise

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

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