This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENALBad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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