Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENALIf you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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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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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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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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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
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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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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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