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Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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 greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Hardship Poverty Ridiculous
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
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
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Capable Insult Submit
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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