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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
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
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake

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