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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

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
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
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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