The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
JUVENALMany commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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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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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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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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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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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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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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 but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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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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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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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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