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

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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing

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

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