Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENALIt is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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