Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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