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JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)
Roman satirical poet
(c. 60 - 140)
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Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live.
      - [Gluttony]

Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?
      - [Proverbs]

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
      - [Proverbs]

Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
      - [Proverbs]

That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
      - [Proverbs]

The abuse of cabmen in a block.
      - [Proverbs]

The act of God injures no one.
      - [Action]

The arrows are from her dowry.
      - [Proverbs]

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
      - [Riches]

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
      - [Proverbs]

The face, not the woman is the attraction.
      - [Proverbs]

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
      - [Proverbs]

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
      - [Proverbs]

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
      - [Proverbs]

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
      - [Poverty]

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
      - [Proverbs]

The itch of scribbling.
      - [Proverbs]

The love of money grows as money grows.
      - [Money : Proverbs]

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
      - [Proverbs]

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
      - [Purse]

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.
      - [Proverbs]

The price never stood in the way of her inclination.
      - [Proverbs]

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
      - [Proverbs]

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.
      - [Proverbs]

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
      - [Envy]


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