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

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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace

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

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