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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
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We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]
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