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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Juvenal

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

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