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

Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
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
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
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
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner

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