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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal

Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
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
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Lose Madness Shirt Slave
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
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
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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
Who will watch the watchers?
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One Liner Watch
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect

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