Juvenal Quotes - Page 7

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• The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

  Juvenal

  Teacher, Dishes

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• Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

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  Revenge, Mind, Pleasure

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.155

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• Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

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  May, Lizards, Green

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• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

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  Lying, Poverty, Depth

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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• No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

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  Evil, Steps

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• A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

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  Traveller, Beggar

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• She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

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  Food, Oysters, Differences

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• Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

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  Mother, Children, Hands

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• Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

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  Writing, Sick, Mind

  "Hissy fit now" by Laura Denham, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

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  Watches, Censorship, Watchers

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• Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

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  Men, Crime, He Man

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• Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

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  Death, Men, Dying

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• For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

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  Men, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Satires, X, line 349, 1922.

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

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  Money, Men, Greed

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• Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

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  People, Poverty, Poor

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• A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

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  Swans, Bird, Black

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• Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

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  Men, Play, Saint

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• We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

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  Example, Depraved

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• From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

  Juvenal

  Parenting, Parent, Authority

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• Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Evil, Guilt

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Satires, XIII, line 1, 1922.

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• There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

  Juvenal

  Men, Coats, May

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• The greatest respect is owed to a child.

  Juvenal

  Children

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• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Woe

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• Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

  Juvenal

  Growth, Care, Know Thyself

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.129

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• Who watches the watchmen?

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  Political, Watches, Politics

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