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

Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

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

Kindness Lie Worse
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

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

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake

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

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