Count it the greatest sin to prefer mere existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 8.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 8.

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