When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALLuxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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