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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
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 individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
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
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

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