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

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

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
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

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