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

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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
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
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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