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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Roman satirical poet
(c. 60 - 140)
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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
      - [Satire]

In vengeance is found the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
      - [Vengeance]

Integrity is praised and starves.
      - [Proverbs]

Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
      - [Proverbs]

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
      - [Proverbs]

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.
      - [Proverbs]

It is hard to abstain from writing satire.
      - [Proverbs]

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
      - [Proverbs]

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
      - [Poverty]

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
      - [Proverbs]

Let him love none and be by none beloved!
      - [Proverbs]

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
      - [Proverbs]

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
      - [Proverbs]

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
      - [Proverbs]

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
      - [Proverbs]

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
      - [Quality]

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
      - [Proverbs]

Men who only live to eat.
      - [Proverbs]

Nature and wisdom always say the same.
      - [Nature]

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
      - [Nature]

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

Nature never says one thing, and science another.
      - [Proverbs]

No god is absent where prudence dwells.
      - [Prudence]

No man e'er reach'd the heights of vice at first.
      - [Vice]

No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
      - [Proverbs]


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