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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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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit

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