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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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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.
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It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
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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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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
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Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.
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The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
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Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
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One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
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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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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
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Who watches the watchmen?
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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
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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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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart this is our noblest quality.
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The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
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Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
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Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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