50+ Juvenal Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Fortune Matter
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Indulge Pleasure Rare
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Tolerate Wealth Woman
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Failure Talent Verse Writing
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Desire Direct Fear Reason
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Happiness Man Seduce Wicked
If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Beget Failure Nature Poem
Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Body Health Mind Pray
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Creation Luck Position Raise
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
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Bread Circus Human
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Hate Shame Woman
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Human Nature Learn Pay Price
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Beauty One Liner Purity Rare Union
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Die Live Madness Order Sheer Want Wealth
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Crow Fortune Luck One Liner White
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
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Descend Heaven Knowledge
Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Anger Lack Poetry Talent Writing
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Deceive Shadow Vice Virtue
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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House Servant
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Crime Crown Different Result
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Growth Love Money
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Blind Enjoyment Fortune
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Dead Foe Luxury One Liner
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Rejoice Revenge Woman
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Kindness Lie Worse

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