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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

Juvenal

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

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