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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
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
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

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