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• Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

  Juvenal

  Honesty, Cold, Left

  Juvenal, Susanna Morton Braund (2004). “Juvenal and Persius”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

  Juvenal

  Writing, World, Satire

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• It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Men, Quality

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 164, 1890.

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• The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

  Juvenal

  Dinner, Gains, Fine

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• Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.
  [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
  Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

  Juvenal

  Mean, Prison, Virtue

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• Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

  Juvenal

  Wealthy

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• The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

  Juvenal

  Two, People, Circus

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• From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

  Juvenal

  Disease, Flocks, Whole

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• Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

  Juvenal

  Pleasure, Produce, Indulgence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

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

  Juvenal

  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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

  Juvenal

  Men, Crime

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• Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
  [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

  Juvenal

  Selfishness, Luxurious

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• Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
  Can match the fierce unutterable pain
  He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
  Carries his own accuser in his breast.

  Juvenal

  Pain, Night, Fierce

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.470

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• A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

  Juvenal

  Hate, Shame

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• Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

  Juvenal

  Men, Fortune, Enjoy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 53, Satires, XII, line 50, 1922.

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• We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
  [Lat., Dociles imitandis
  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

  Juvenal

  Taught, Imitation, Depraved

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• There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

  Juvenal

  Women, Wrath, Inspire

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Integrity is praised, and starves.

  Juvenal

  Integrity, Virtue

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• Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

  Juvenal

  Bears, Different, Crowns

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 103, 1922.

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• Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Thinking, Fool

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 180, 1890.

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• Every great house is full of haughty servants.

  Juvenal

  House, Servant, Haughty

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• We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

  Juvenal

  Happiness, Overcoming, Bears

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, XII, line 20, 1922.

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• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Mind, Littles

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• Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

  Juvenal

  Luxury, Enjoyment, Foe

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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