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1. "Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed." ~ Juvenal
2. "Honesty is admired, and starves." ~ Juvenal
3. "Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown." ~ Juvenal
4. "Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds." ~ Juvenal
5. "Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)" ~ Juvenal
6. "It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,which places the length of life last among nature's blessings,which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believesthe hardships and savage labors of Hercules better thanthe satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue." ~ Juvenal
7. "No man becomes bad all at once." ~ Juvenal
8. "Dedicate one's life to truth" ~ Juvenal
9. "Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself." ~ Juvenal
10. "Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry." ~ Juvenal
11. "..but who will guard the guardians?" ~ Juvenal
12. "Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many." ~ Juvenal
13. "quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio; librum, si malus est, nequeo laudare et poscere; motus astrorum ignoro; funus promittere patris nec uolo nec possum; ranarum uiscera numquam inspexi; ferre ad nuptam quae mittit adulter, quae mandat, norunt alii; me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo tamquam mancus et extinctae corpus non utile dextrae." ~ Juvenal
14. "Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponamvexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?inpune ergo mihi recitaverit ille togatas,hic elegos? inpune diem consumpserit ingensTelephus aut summi plena iam margine libriscriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?nota magis nulli domus est sua quam mihi lucusMartis et Aeoliis vicinum rupibus antrumVulcani. Quid agant venti, quas torqueat umbrasAeacus, unde alius furtivae devehat aurumpelliculae, quantas iaculetur Monychus ornos,Frontonis platani convulsaque marmora clamantsemper et adsiduo ruptae lectore columnae:expectes eadem a summo minimoque poeta.et nos ergo manum ferulae subduximus, et nosconsilium dedimus Sullae, privatus ut altumdormiret; stulta est clementia, cum tot ubiquevatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae.cur tamen hoc potius libeat decurrere campoper quem magnus equos Auruncae flexit alumnus,si vacat ac placidi rationem admittitis, edam." ~ Juvenal
15. "incipe, Calliope. licet et considere: non estcantandum, res uera agitur. narrate, puellae 35Pierides, prosit mihi uos dixisse puellas." ~ Juvenal
16. "Duas tantum res anxius optat, Panem et circenses, by the Roman satirist Juvenal." ~ Juvenal
17. "odi hanc ego quae repetit uoluitque Palaemonis artem seruata semper lege et ratione loquendi ignotosque mihi tenet antiquaria uersus nec curanda uiris." ~ Juvenal
18. "Rare is the union of beauty and purity." ~ Juvenal
19. "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." ~ Juvenal
20. "For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes." ~ Juvenal
21. "The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face." ~ Juvenal
22. "It is difficult not to write satire." ~ Juvenal
23. "A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years." ~ Juvenal
24. "Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove." ~ Juvenal
25. "It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty." ~ Juvenal
26. "Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised." ~ Juvenal
27. "I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason." ~ Juvenal
28. "No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap." ~ Juvenal
29. "One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander." ~ Juvenal
30. "There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman." ~ Juvenal
31. "rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno" Juvenal___SatiresBlack Swan" ~ Juvenal
32. "Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]" ~ Juvenal
33. "If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolledIn Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled." ~ Juvenal
34. "orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano." ~ Juvenal
35. "Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?" ~ Juvenal

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