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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Juvenal

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENAL

Bread Circus Human
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent 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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
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
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
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
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENAL

Fate God Heaven Place Wise
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENAL

Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue
Who will watch the watchers?
JUVENAL

One Liner Watch
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JUVENAL

Conquer Cruel Luxury Peace Suffering World

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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