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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
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
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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War

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