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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

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
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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 wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
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
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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 tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue

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