The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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