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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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