Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENALGive up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
More Juvenal Quotes
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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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.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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