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

Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price

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

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