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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust

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