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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
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They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
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One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
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Satire is what closes Saturday night.
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The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
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Everything in Rome has its price.
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Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
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The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
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Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
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