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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL

Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENAL

Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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.
JUVENAL

Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL

Consequence Dare Prison Worth
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENAL

Crime Crown Different Result
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Guilty Heart Punishment Verdict
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
JUVENAL

Indulge Pleasure Rare

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