There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
JUVENALThe greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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