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Juvenal

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rejoice Revenge Weak
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
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
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

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