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

Juvenal

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth

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

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