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

Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENAL

Failure Talent Verse Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth

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