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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
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
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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