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

Juvenal

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin

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

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