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

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
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.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
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
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
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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