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

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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 but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
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
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray

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