When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENALCommon sense among men of fortune is rare.
More Juvenal Quotes
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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