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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENAL

Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Destroy Efficient Luxury War
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Possess Writing
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
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
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
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
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
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
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent 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
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Difficult World Writing
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked

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