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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
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
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

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