Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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