Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENALWhat’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
More Juvenal Quotes
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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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 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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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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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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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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