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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Juvenal

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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

Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

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