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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

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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.

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