Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENALEvery great house is full of haughty servants.
More Juvenal Quotes
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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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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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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