Juvenal on mankind
Juvenal55 quotes“Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.”
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
JuvenalJuvenal All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JuvenalJuvenal Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JuvenalJuvenal It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JuvenalJuvenal A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JuvenalJuvenal Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JuvenalJuvenal Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JuvenalJuvenal This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JuvenalJuvenal Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
JuvenalJuvenal Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JuvenalJuvenal Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JuvenalJuvenal The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JuvenalJuvenal Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JuvenalJuvenal Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JuvenalJuvenal No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
JuvenalJuvenal There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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Henry JamesHenry James It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past…
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.
William GoldingWilliam Golding Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
HippocratesHippocrates Our true nationality is mankind.
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