It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.
JUVENALRare is the union of beauty and purity.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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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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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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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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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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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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