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The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Juvenal

Sweet, Smell, Wealth

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

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Ambitious, Poverty, States

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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

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Writing, Insane, Possession

"Satires". Book by Juvenal, VII, line 51, 1890.

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Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

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Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

"Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

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Men, Infamous, Crime

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Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

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Mean, Bravery, Prison

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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]

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Deeds, Guilty, Crime

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In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

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Eating, Reason, Palate

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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

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Ambition, Tables, Height

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The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

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Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

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Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

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Grief, Men, Blow

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No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

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Nice, Italian, Hell

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Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
[Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
Tantum habet et fidei.]

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Money, Men, Credit

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Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
[Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

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Money, Tears, Lost

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Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
[Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

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Poetry, Indignation

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To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

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Father, Cuisine

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He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

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Views, Public Opinion, Currents

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He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

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Guilt, Crime

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Savage bears agree with one another.

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Savages, Bears, Agree

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Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

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Mean, Men, Way

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The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

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Sorrow, Finishing, Strokes

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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

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Faults, Bears

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Satires, II, line 24, 1922.

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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal

Hero, Men, Shining

Juvenal (1806). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.259

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All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

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Art, Sky, Hungry

Juvenal (1802). “Satires”, p.79

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The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

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Poverty, Traveler, Robbers

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