It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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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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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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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