Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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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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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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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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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?
JUVENAL