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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Juvenal

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL

Body Health Mind Pray
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

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

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
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 nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

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