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

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENAL

Failure Talent Verse Writing
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

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

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