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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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