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

  Juvenal

  Views, Public Opinion, Currents

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

  Juvenal

  Guilt, Crime

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• When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

  Juvenal

  World, Sincerity, Assurance

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• Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

  Juvenal

  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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• O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Poverty

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

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• Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

  Juvenal

  Example, Committed

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• Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

  Juvenal

  Light, Shining, Borrowing

  Juvenal, Persius (1817). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.333

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• Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
  [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

  Juvenal

  Nature, One Thing

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• He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

  Juvenal

  Wish, Wealth, Rich

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, XIV, line 176, 1922.

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

  Juvenal

  Art, Sky, Hungry

  Juvenal (1802). “Satires”, p.79

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• The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Joy, Pleasure

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.460

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• There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
  A woman's at the bottom.
  [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

  Juvenal

  Women, Cases, Bottom

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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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• What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

  Juvenal

  Imperfection, Failing, Theft

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• The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
  [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

  Juvenal

  Amor, Increase, Quantum

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• Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

  Juvenal

  Autumn, Greedy, Harvest

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• Of what avail are pedigrees?

  Juvenal

  Pedigree

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• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Trials

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• The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

  Juvenal

  Men, Purses, Empty

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• The act of God injures no one.

  Juvenal

  Action

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• Be a gentleman farmer.

  Juvenal

  Gentleman, Farmers

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
  [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae
  Atque pudicitiae.]

  Juvenal

  Beauty, Unions, Purity

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• Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
  At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

  Juvenal

  Death, Seven, Inches

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.140

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• Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
  [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Greek, Hunger

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• The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

  Juvenal

  Money, Smell, May

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