Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENALToday there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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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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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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