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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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