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Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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

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