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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Juvenal

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENAL

Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare

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