Quotes by Juvenal

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

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

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The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on;...

#Elderly

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of...

#Existence, #Honor, #Life

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

#Education, #Knowledge, #Learning

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

#Poverty

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

#Poverty

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain,...

#Poets, #Trust

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others

#Punishment

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind

#Revenge

Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself - so say fools

#Revenge

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

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