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

Juvenal

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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
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
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
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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

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

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