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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENAL

Lose Madness Shirt Slave
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

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