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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

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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
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
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 wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Fate God Heaven Place Wise
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union

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