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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
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Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
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Who is to guard the guards themselves?
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Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.
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A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
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It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
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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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What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
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No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
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Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
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