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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL

Body Health Mind Pray
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

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

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