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

Juvenal

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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak

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

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