Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?
JUVENALWhat’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
More Juvenal Quotes
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
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What’s infamy matter if you keep your fortune?
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Honesty is admired, and starves.
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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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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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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
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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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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
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Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
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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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