When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALIt is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
More Juvenal Quotes
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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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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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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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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