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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal

Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Part Slave Tongue
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
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
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
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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

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