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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

Juvenal

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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 greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

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