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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
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
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
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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