Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENALMany 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.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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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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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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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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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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