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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal

Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENAL

Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
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
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL

Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
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

Lose Madness Shirt Slave
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENAL

Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENAL

Kindness Lie Worse
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
JUVENAL

Destroy Efficient Luxury War
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

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