All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
JUVENALAll wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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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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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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