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Juvenal

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
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
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
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
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
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Crime Fruit One Liner
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge

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