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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
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
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
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
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
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

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