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Juvenal

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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 but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak

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