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

Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENAL

Lose Madness Shirt Slave
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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.
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Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
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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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World

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