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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.

Juvenal

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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
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
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
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.

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