When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
JUVENALThe love of money grows as the money itself grows.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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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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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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