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

Juvenal

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
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth

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

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