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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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

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