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

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak

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