No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENAL
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
More Juvenal Quotes
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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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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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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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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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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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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