To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. - Juvenal

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I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

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The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]

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Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]

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Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]

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A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

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