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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Juvenal

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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
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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