Quotes by Juvenal

Juvenal

Roman poet

Alive from: about 1st century AD

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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  Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

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  A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

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  A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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  A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

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  A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

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

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  Be gentle with the young.

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  Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

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  Every great house is full of haughty servants.

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  Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

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  Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

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  From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

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  Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

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  How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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  Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.