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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal

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
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
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENAL

Failure Talent Verse Writing
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue

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