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• Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

  Juvenal

  Men, Long, Envy

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• The venal herd.
  [Lat., Venale pecus.]

  Juvenal

  Herds

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• I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

  Juvenal

  Order, Judgement, Done

  'Satires' no. 6, l. 223

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• The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
  [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

  Juvenal

  Purple, Gains, Grapes

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• Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Race, Tears

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.190

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• Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

  Juvenal

  Singing, Faces, Traveler

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• Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
  [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

  Juvenal

  Grief, Men, Blow

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• No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
  But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

  Juvenal

  Nice, Italian, Hell

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• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Trials

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

  Juvenal

  Ambition, Tables, Height

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• He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

  Juvenal

  Guilt, Crime

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

  Juvenal

  Eating, Reason, Palate

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• Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

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

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

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• What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

  Juvenal

  Imperfection, Failing, Theft

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• The abuse of cabmen in a block.

  Juvenal

  Block, Abuse

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

  Juvenal

  Writing, Insane, Possession

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VII, line 51, 1890.

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• One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Infamous, Crime

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
  [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.]

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty, Crime

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• Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

  Juvenal

  Ambitious, Poverty, States

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• No man ever became very wicked all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men, Evil, Wicked

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• The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

  Juvenal

  Sorrow, Finishing, Strokes

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

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Traveler, Robbers

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• Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

  Juvenal

  Light, Shining, Borrowing

  Juvenal, Persius (1817). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.333

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• Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

  Juvenal

  Example, Committed

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