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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

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.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
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
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.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch

Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?

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