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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Juvenal

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human

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