Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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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