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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

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