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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result

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