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Juvenal

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

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue

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