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The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Juvenal

If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
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.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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

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