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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave

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