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

Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Who will watch the watchers?
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