(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
What is the use of your pedigrees?
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
No one every suddenly became depraved.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.