When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALIt is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
More Juvenal Quotes
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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