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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Juvenal

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price

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