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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

Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray

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