Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENAL
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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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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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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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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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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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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