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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Juvenal

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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

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