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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
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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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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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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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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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