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Juvenal

Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)

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Peace visits not the guilty mind.
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)
Be gentle with the young.
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
But who is to guard the guards themselves
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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.
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

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