All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENALAll wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENALWhenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
JUVENALNever does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
JUVENALRare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENALMany individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENALIt is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENALThe greatest respect is owed to a child.
JUVENALGive them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENALLuxury is more deadly than any foe.
JUVENALIs it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENALIt is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENALNo wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
JUVENALNothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENALWhere talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENALWhen talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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