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Juvenal Quotes
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Poet Quotes
Category:
Roman Poet Quotes
Year of Birth:
60
Year of Death:
130
Nationality:
Roman
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Juvenal

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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.
Juvenal

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal

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

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal

It is difficult not to write satire.
Juvenal

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

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

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
Juvenal

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
Juvenal

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

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
Juvenal

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

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



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