No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENALWho will watch the watchers?
More Juvenal Quotes
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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