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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL

Body Health Mind Pray
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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