It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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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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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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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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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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