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• Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

  Juvenal

  Shadow, Vices, Virtue

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• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

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• The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

  Juvenal

  Guilty, Thunder, Pale

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• The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

  Juvenal

  Care, Riches, Estates

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• The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
  [Lat., Semita certe
  Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

  Juvenal

  Path, Life Is, Virtue

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• An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

  Juvenal

  Excess, Wealth

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• Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

  Juvenal

  Mistake, Youth, Allowance

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

  Juvenal

  Believe, Power, Equal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 622-24, Satires, IV, line 70, 1922.

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• See the effect of commercial intercourse.

  Juvenal

  Intercourse, Effects

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• This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Men, Guilt

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• It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

  Juvenal

  Fame, Wretched

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VIII, line 76, 1890.

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• Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Dare, Worthy

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• The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

  Juvenal

  Grapes, Contact

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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Guardian, Security

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• The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

  Juvenal

  Wife, Dowry, Objects

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• No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wicked, Wicked Man

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• One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

  Juvenal

  Globes, Youthful Arrogance

  Juvenal (1967). “The Sixteen Satires”

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• There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

  Juvenal

  Bottom, Lawsuit

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• No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

  Juvenal

  Guidance, Protection, Prudence

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• Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
  [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

  Juvenal

  Selfishness, Luxurious

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• The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

  Juvenal

  Wise, Men, Desire

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• Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
  [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

  Juvenal

  Nemo, Depravity, Depraved

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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• Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

  Juvenal

  Long, Purses

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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