Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
JUVENALNo wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
More Juvenal Quotes
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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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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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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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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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