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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice 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

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

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