Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
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.
JUVENAL

Possess Writing
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge

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