Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
JUVENALThe greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
More Juvenal Quotes
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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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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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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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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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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