Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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 greatest respect is owed to a child.
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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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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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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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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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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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