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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

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
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
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
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

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