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

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
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
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

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

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman

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

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