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.
JUVENALMany individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Who will watch the watchers?
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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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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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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