Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENALFate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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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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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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