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

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
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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.]
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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
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No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
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But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
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