One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others
Juvenal
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
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The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived
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Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
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Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages; but we also judge those happy who have learned in the school of life how to bear its ills and not buck against the yoke
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Honesty is praised and starves
honesty
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die
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Wisdom is the winner over good luck
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses
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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality
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Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast
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Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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