Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENALA lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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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 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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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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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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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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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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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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 is more deadly than any foe.
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