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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Juvenal

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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
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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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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