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• The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

  Juvenal

  Class, Ignorant, Faces

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 276-77, III, line 86, 1922.

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• Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

  Juvenal

  Gold, Increase, Avarice

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• There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

  Juvenal

  Desire, Vices, Add

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• Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

  Juvenal

  Games, Two, Anxiety

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• All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

  Juvenal

  Knowledge, Wish, Pay

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• Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

  Juvenal

  Good Luck, Luck, Winner

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• The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

  Juvenal

  Eclipse, Pupils, Tutor

  Juvenal (1839). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English Notes, Partly Comp., and Partly Original”, p.338

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Evil, Vices

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• The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

  Juvenal

  Prayer, Book, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 75-80, Satires, I, I, line 85, 1922.

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• Trust not to outward show.
  [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

  Juvenal

  Appearance, Shows

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• Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

  Juvenal

  Astrology

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• The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

  Juvenal

  Children, Years, Parent

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.162

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• The itch of scribbling.

  Juvenal

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• Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

  Juvenal

  Blood, Portraits, Noble

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 23-25, Satires, VIII, line 1, 1922.

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• Who is to guard the guards themselves?

  Juvenal

  Awareness, Self Awareness

  Satires no. 6, l. 347

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• Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

  Juvenal

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 460, Satires, VI, line 187, 1922.

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• What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

  Juvenal

  Tyrants, Ears, Tyranny

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, Satires, IV, line 86, 1922.

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• Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

  Juvenal

  Men, Long, Envy

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• The venal herd.
  [Lat., Venale pecus.]

  Juvenal

  Herds

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• I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

  Juvenal

  Order, Judgement, Done

  'Satires' no. 6, l. 223

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• The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
  [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

  Juvenal

  Purple, Gains, Grapes

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• Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

  Juvenal

  Strong, Men, Sin

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.464

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• Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

  Juvenal

  Cabbage, Lasts, Killing

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• Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

  Juvenal

  Singing, Faces, Traveler

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• Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

  Juvenal

  Patience, Desire, Rich

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