The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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