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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Juvenal

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

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