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An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts.
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Our censor's rule condemns the doves while acquitting the ravens.
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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things —bread and circuses!
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The misfortunes of poverty carry with them nothing harder to bear than that it makes men ridiculous.
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Off you go, madman, and hurry across the horrible Alps, duly to delight schoolboys and become a subject for practising speech-making.
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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
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No man will get my help in robbery, and therefore no governor will take me on his staff.
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Weigh Hannibal: how many pounds will you find in that great general?
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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
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The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.
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What's Rome to me, what business have I there?
I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear?
Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes,
Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.
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For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty mind! You may immediately draw proof of this—that no one rejoices more in revenge than a woman.
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This is the first of punishments, that no guilty man is acquitted if judged by himself.
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The Syrian Orontes has now for long been pouring into the Tiber, with its own language and ways of behaving.
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Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.
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There's hardly a case that comes to court that is not inspired by a woman.
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But who will guard the guardians themselves?
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Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go.
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All wish to possess knowledge, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Who would put up with the Gracchi complaining about subversion?
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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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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
Carries his own accuser in his breast.
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Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, author of the Satires.
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