This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
JUVENALWho will watch the watchers?
More Juvenal Quotes
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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