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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
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
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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