When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALAll wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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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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