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Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
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
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENAL

Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

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

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak

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