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Nature and wisdom always say the same.

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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But who guards the guardians?
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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
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One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
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O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
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Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
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Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
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The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
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