If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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