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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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