All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENALRare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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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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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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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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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