Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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