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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.

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Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

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

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World

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