Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENALCommon sense among men of fortune is rare.
More Juvenal Quotes
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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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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So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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