Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENALEvery great house is full of haughty servants.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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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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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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