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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JuvenalJuvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
JuvenalJuvenal Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JuvenalJuvenal If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
JuvenalJuvenal Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JuvenalJuvenal All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JuvenalJuvenal It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JuvenalJuvenal The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JuvenalJuvenal Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JuvenalJuvenal In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JuvenalJuvenal Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
JuvenalJuvenal Honesty is admired, and starves.
JuvenalJuvenal Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JuvenalJuvenal So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
JuvenalJuvenal The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JuvenalJuvenal Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
OshoOsho I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it
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