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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise

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