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.
JUVENALRemorse is the fruit of crime.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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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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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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