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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth

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