Honesty is admired, and starves.
JUVENALLuck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
More Juvenal Quotes
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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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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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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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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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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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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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Who will watch the watchers?
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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge
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