In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENALMany individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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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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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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