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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Juvenal

It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENAL

Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money

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