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Satire is what closes Saturday night.

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Night
Closes
Satire
Saturday

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Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
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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.
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Be a gentleman farmer.
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One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.
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The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
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He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
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Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
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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.]
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He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
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Peace visits not the guilty mind.
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