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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

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

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War

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