Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
JUVENALSo 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.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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