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Age
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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.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Agreement
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Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
-Juvenal
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Aristocracy
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What is the use of your pedigrees?
-Juvenal
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Authors & Writing
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Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
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Bread
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Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
-Juvenal
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Character
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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
-Juvenal
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City Life, Cities
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All things may be bought in Rome with money.
-Juvenal
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Crime
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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
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Cynicism
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It is difficult not to write satire.
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Desires
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No one every suddenly became depraved.
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Diets and Dieting
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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
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Example
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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
-Juvenal
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Fame
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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
-Juvenal
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Fate & Destiny
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Lat: Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerumExtollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari
-Juvenal, Satires (III, 39)
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Home
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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
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Humility
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So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
-Juvenal
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Inheritance
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A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
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Integrity
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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
-Juvenal
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Knowledge
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Luck
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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
-Juvenal
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Men
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A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
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Money
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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
-Juvenal
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Nature
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Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
-Juvenal
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Parenting
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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
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Books by and about Juvenal