Juvenal Quotes - Page 5

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Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

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Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

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The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

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Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

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Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

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One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

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The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

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Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

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Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

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She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

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Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

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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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Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

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Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

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Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

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Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

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

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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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Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

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Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

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Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

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All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

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Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

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Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

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The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

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He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

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Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

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Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

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The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

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When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

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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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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

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But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

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