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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.


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JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
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JUVENAL Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
JUVENAL Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
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JUVENAL All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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JUVENAL Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
JUVENAL No one every suddenly became depraved.
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JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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JUVENAL A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
JUVENAL They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
JUVENAL Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
JUVENAL What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
JUVENAL Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
JUVENAL It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
JUVENAL A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
JUVENAL Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL Be gentle with the young.
JUVENAL The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
JUVENAL Wisdom overcomes fortune.
JUVENAL The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
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JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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JUVENAL Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes lif...
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JUVENAL Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
JUVENAL Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the of...
JUVENAL Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
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JUVENAL Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses
JUVENAL There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say
JUVENAL Panem et circenses.
JUVENAL No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
JUVENAL All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
JUVENAL All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last
JUVENAL Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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JUVENAL 'Tis unto children most respect is due
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JUVENAL Wisdom is the winner over good luck
JUVENAL Honesty is praised and starves
JUVENAL The blind envy the one-eyed
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JUVENAL Virtue is the one and only nobility.
JUVENAL Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
JUVENAL No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.
JUVENAL No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
JUVENAL In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
JUVENAL Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold
JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
JUVENAL Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
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JUVENAL I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
JUVENAL Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH