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Juvenal

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
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise

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