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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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I only feel, but want the power to paint.
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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
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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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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
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Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
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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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Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
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It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
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The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
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The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
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What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
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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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Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
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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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The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
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