Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENALSome men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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