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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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