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• Remorse is the fruit of crime.

  Juvenal

  Fruit, Crime, Remorse

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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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• The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
  [Lat., Semita certe
  Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

  Juvenal

  Path, Life Is, Virtue

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• Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

  Juvenal

  Shadow, Vices, Virtue

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• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

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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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• This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Men, Guilt

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

  Juvenal

  Loss, Medicine, Mind

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

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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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• For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Eye, Sweat

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.198

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• There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

  Juvenal

  Believe, Power, Equal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 622-24, Satires, IV, line 70, 1922.

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• All things may be bought in Rome with money.

  Juvenal

  Money, Rome, May

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• Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Dare, Worthy

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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Guardian, Security

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• The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

  Juvenal

  Wise, Men, Desire

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• No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wicked, Wicked Man

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• Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

  Juvenal

  Friendship, Money, Wealth

  Juvenal (1841). “The Satires of Juvenal Literally Translated Into English Prose from the Texts of Rupertus and the Tauchnitz Edition; with Numerous Grammatical and Exegetical Notes; a Sketch of the Author's Life and a Complete Index of Proper Names”, p.30

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• Nature and wisdom always say the same.

  Juvenal

  Nature

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• The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

  Juvenal

  Wife, Dowry, Objects

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• Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

  Juvenal

  Ravens, Censorship, Dove

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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• Virtue is the only and true nobility.
  [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

  Juvenal

  Virtue, Nobility

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

  Juvenal

  Disease, Flocks, Whole

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• The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

  Juvenal

  Tongue, Slave

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 808-9, Satires, IX, line 120, 1922.

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