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The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

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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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Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
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Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
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They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
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Those things please more, which are more expensive.
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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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