Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
JUVENALVice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL -
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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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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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
JUVENAL