This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENALThe greatest respect is owed to a child.
More Juvenal Quotes
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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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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