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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man 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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
JUVENAL

Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENAL

Beget Failure Nature Poem
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
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

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