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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Juvenal

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

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