Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
JUVENALThe love of money grows as the money itself grows.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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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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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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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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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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