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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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

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