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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Juvenal

Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake

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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