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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Juvenal

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

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue

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