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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Juvenal

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
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing

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