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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Juvenal

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

Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENAL

Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
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
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
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL

Creation Luck Position Raise
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENAL

Desire Direct Fear Reason
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
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JUVENAL

Rejoice Revenge Woman
Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENAL

Admire Honesty One Liner Starve
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.
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Death Eloquence Man Rush Strength Throw Trust
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Consequence Dare Prison Worth
Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENAL

Mankind Snake
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Fame House Pillar Poor Ruin
The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENAL

Part Slave Tongue

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