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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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War

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

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