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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Juvenal

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENAL

Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

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

Part Slave Tongue
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENAL

Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL

Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
JUVENAL

Fortune Matter
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL

Diamond Exterior Gemstone Individual Quality Rough Shine
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing

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