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

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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENAL

Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
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
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

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

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