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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL

Growth Love Money
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
The greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENAL

Children Owe Respect
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL

Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENAL

Bad Fear Love Men Punishment Virtue
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENAL

Descend Heaven Knowledge
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL

Human Nature Learn Pay Price
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
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
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JUVENAL

Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JUVENAL

Hate Shame Woman
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
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JUVENAL

Capable Insult Submit
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant

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