Quotes: Juvenal
Quotes 1 till 15 of 39.
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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.
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Horace
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