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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man 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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing

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