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

Juvenal

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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
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.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise

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