Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENALWriting in the incurable itch that possesses many.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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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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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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