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

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 talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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 tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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