Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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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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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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