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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal

Character, People, Reverse

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Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Juvenal

Circles, Example, Authority

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Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Juvenal

Guilt, Vices, Proportion

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The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Juvenal

Women, Mind, Nemo

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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Juvenal

Animal, Agreement, Savages

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There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Juvenal

Men, Eagles, Lust

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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Juvenal

Children, Son, Years

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They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]

Juvenal

Home, Poverty, Ability

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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]

Juvenal

Power, Wish, Posse

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Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Juvenal

Art, Philosophy, Food

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Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Juvenal

Writing, Irresistible

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The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Juvenal

Tongue, Worst, Servant

Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.54

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By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Juvenal

Men, Prison, Guilty

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, XIII, line 2, 1922.

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Men who only live to eat.

Juvenal

Men

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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Juvenal

Writing

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To lay down one's life for the truth.

Juvenal

Laying Down, Scripture, Bible Verse

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Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

Juvenal

Heart, Race, Tears

Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.190

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The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]

Juvenal

Rewards, Fame, Virtue

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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

Home, Mind, Vices

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Everything in Rome has its price.

Juvenal

Rome

Satires no. 3, l. 183

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Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Juvenal

Common Sense, Common, Higher

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No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Juvenal

Depraved

'Satires' no. 2, l. 83

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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

Toss, Fool, Wheels

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Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Juvenal

Cry, Kindred, Lost

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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Juvenal

Ravens, Wicked, Innocent

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