Juvenal

Quotes by Juvenal

• Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

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• Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

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• A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

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• The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

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• All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

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• For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

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• One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

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• Even savage bears agree among themselves.

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• Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

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• Two things only the people anxiously desire-bread and circuses.

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• No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

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• Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

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• This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

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• We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body

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• Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

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• Honesty is praised and starves.

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• Great power, which incites Great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned In a long, splendid stream of honors.

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