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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL

House Servant
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL

Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
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.
JUVENAL

Authority Example Mind Nature Rapid
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Weak
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENAL

Nature Wisdom
Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENAL

Lose Madness Shirt Slave

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