Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENALFate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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