When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALSome men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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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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