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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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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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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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 but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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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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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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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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Who will watch the watchers?
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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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