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• Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
  [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

  Juvenal

  Nemo, Depravity, Depraved

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• Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

  Juvenal

  Kind, Beast, Spots

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• When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

  Juvenal

  Fear, Desire, Reason

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• Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

  Juvenal

  Luck, Mirth, Beholder

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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Guardian, Security

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• No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

  Juvenal

  Revenge, Rejoice

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 191, 1890.

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• This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

  Juvenal

  Knowledge, Heaven, Know Thyself

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 419-23, Satires, XI, line 27, 1922.

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• Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

  Juvenal

  Men, Common Sense, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, VIII, line 73, 1922.

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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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• 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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• One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

  Juvenal

  Crowns, Crime, Crosses

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• There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

  Juvenal

  Disputes, Cases

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• Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

  Juvenal

  War, Luxury, Long

  Juvenal (1873). “D. Iunii Iuvenalis satirae, with a literal tr. and notes, by J.D. Lewis”, p.68

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• All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

  Juvenal

  Hope, Learning, Pay The Price

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 434-37, Satires, VII, line 157, 1922.

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

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

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• Remorse is the fruit of crime.

  Juvenal

  Fruit, Crime, Remorse

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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

  Juvenal

  Peace, Knowing Who You Are, Mind

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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• Nature and wisdom always say the same.

  Juvenal

  Nature

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• The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

  Juvenal

  Guilty, Thunder, Pale

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• Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

  Juvenal

  Kindness, Heart, Men

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• Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

  Juvenal

  Missing, Vines, Widowed

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

  Juvenal

  Shadow, Vices, Virtue

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• An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

  Juvenal

  Hatred, Healed, Wounds

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• The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wife, Kind

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