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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Juvenal

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
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

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