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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Woe

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• Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

  Juvenal

  Nature, Doe, Speak

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• The face, not the woman is the attraction.

  Juvenal

  Faces, Attraction

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• Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
  [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Fortune, Conqueror

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• Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

  Juvenal

  People, Poverty, Poor

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• Who watches the watchmen?

  Juvenal

  Political, Watches, Politics

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• The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

  Juvenal

  Teacher, Dishes

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Greed

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• Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

  Juvenal

  Growth, Care, Know Thyself

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.129

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• Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

  Juvenal

  Men, Play, Saint

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• Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

  Juvenal

  Character, People, Reverse

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• Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

  Juvenal

  Circles, Example, Authority

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• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

  Juvenal

  Lying, Poverty, Depth

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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• Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
  [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

  Juvenal

  Guilt, Vices, Proportion

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• Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

  Juvenal

  White, Laughing, Clubs

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• The abject pleasure of an abject mind
  And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
  [Lat., Vindicta
  Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

  Juvenal

  Women, Mind, Nemo

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• They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
  [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
  Res angusta domi.]

  Juvenal

  Home, Poverty, Ability

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• Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

  Juvenal

  Mistake, Youth, Allowance

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• What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

  Juvenal

  Men, Crime

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• See the effect of commercial intercourse.

  Juvenal

  Intercourse, Effects

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• A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wealth, Truthfulness

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• Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

  Juvenal

  Tears, Minutes, Duty

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• When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

  Juvenal

  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 209, 1922.

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• The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

  Juvenal

  Life, Flower, Wine

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, IX, line 127, 1890.

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