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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak

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