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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Juvenal

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENAL

Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
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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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge

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