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

Juvenal

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

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise

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

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