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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

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
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
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
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
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
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
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
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Children Owe Respect
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

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