When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
JUVENALRare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
More Juvenal Quotes
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Who will watch the watchers?
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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.
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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
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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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Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
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So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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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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