Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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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