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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous

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