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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
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

Lose Madness Shirt Slave
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War

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