The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
JUVENALIt is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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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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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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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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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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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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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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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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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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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