When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALGive up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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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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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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