All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENALPray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
More Juvenal Quotes
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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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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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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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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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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