"The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Age and Aging
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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Age and Aging
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"We are too quick to imitate depraved examples."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Example
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"It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Fame
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"Even savage animals can agree among themselves."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Agreement
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"They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Glutton
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"The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Home
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"A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Inheritance
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"Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Integrity
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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Knowledge
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"What is the use of your pedigrees?"

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Aristocracy
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"A lucky man is rarer than a white crow."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Luck
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"No one every suddenly became depraved."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Lust
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"Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Luxury
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"A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Men
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"So rare is the union of beauty with modesty."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Modesty
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"The love of money grows as the money itself grows."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Money
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"Nature never says one thing and wisdom another."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Nature
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"From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?"

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Parents and Parenting
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"Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Patience
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"The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on People
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"Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Poverty and The Poor
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"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Poverty and The Poor
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"Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Prayer
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"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Quality
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"Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Repetition
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"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Revenge
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"It is difficult not to write satire."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Sarcasm
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"Every great house is full of haughty servants."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Servants
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"Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Sports
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"Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Character
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"The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Wealth
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"It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Wealth
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"Wisdom overcomes fortune."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Wisdom
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"Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Writers and Writing
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"All things may be bought in Rome with money."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Cities and City Life
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"Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on Crime and Criminals
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