Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
JUVENALIf you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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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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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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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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