When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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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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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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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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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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