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

Juvenal

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave

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

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