Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENALIt is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Who will watch the watchers?
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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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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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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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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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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