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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

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

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake

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