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• Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

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  Honesty, Cold, Left

  Juvenal, Susanna Morton Braund (2004). “Juvenal and Persius”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

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  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

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  Loss, Medicine, Mind

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

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• The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

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  Men, Wife, Kind

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• Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

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  Beauty, Mind, Body

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.451

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• Nature and wisdom always say the same.

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  Nature

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• In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

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  Writing, World, Satire

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

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  Inspirational, Jewels, Shining

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• The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

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  Vices, Popularity

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• A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

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  Heirs, Wealth, Profit

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• It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

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  Revenge, Mind, Littles

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• Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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  Wealthy

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• Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

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  Marriage, Mother, Giving Up

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

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  Too Late, Retreat, Late

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• There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

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  Disputes, Cases

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• When the mischief is done the door is shut.

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  Doors, Done, Mischief

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• No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

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  Revenge, Rejoice

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 191, 1890.

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• It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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  Inspirational, Men, Quality

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 164, 1890.

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• Remorse is the fruit of crime.

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  Fruit, Crime, Remorse

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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

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  Peace, Knowing Who You Are, Mind

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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• We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

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  Men, Wealth, Fortune

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• Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

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  Men, Common Sense, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, VIII, line 73, 1922.

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• For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Sweat

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.198

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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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  Men, Crime, Found

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• An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

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  Hatred, Healed, Wounds

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