Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENALRare is the union of beauty and purity.
More Juvenal Quotes
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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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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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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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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