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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Juvenal

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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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