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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL

Tolerate Wealth Woman
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL

Crime Fruit One Liner
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
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union

If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.

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