Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENALLuxury destroys more efficiently than war.
More Juvenal Quotes
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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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 precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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