This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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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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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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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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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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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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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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