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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

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
Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Alive Give Up Mother In Law Peace
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL

Difficult World Writing
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Nature Wisdom
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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Mankind Snake
Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Cold Honesty One Liner Praise
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
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Bound Desire Innocence Man Wise
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse
Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Common Sense Fortune Men Rare
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Comparison Knowledge Pay Price Speak
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Affair Extreme Fortune Humble Joke People
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray

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