Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
JUVENALWhen did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
More Juvenal Quotes
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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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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The greatest respect is owed to a child.
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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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