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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
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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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing

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