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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Juvenal

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

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