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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.Juvenal
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Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.Juvenal
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.Juvenal
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Honesty is admired, and starves.Juvenal
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Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?Juvenal
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.Juvenal
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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.Juvenal
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.Juvenal
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.Juvenal
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?Juvenal
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.Juvenal
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Honesty's praised then left to freeze.Juvenal
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All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.Juvenal
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A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.Juvenal
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I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.Juvenal
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We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.Juvenal
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.Juvenal
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Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.Juvenal
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.Juvenal
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The smell of profit is clean and sweet whatever the source.Juvenal
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No man ever became very wicked all at once.Juvenal
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.Juvenal
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I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.Juvenal
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For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.Juvenal
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.Juvenal
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.Juvenal