Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENALNow we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
More Juvenal Quotes
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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