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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

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War

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