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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]
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Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.
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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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Who is to guard the guards themselves?
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The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
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The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
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Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
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For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
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Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
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All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
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No one becomes depraved all at once.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
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Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
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