All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENALWhat’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
More Juvenal Quotes
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Remorse is the fruit of crime.
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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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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 precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
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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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The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
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