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

Juvenal

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
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise

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

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