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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
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter

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