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“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
― Juvenal, The Satires

“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”
― Juvenal

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

“Sit mens sana in corpore sano
(a healthy mind in a healthy body)”
― Juvenal

“The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!”
― Juvenal

“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 believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the 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, The Sixteen Satires

“Dedicate one's life to truth”
― Juvenal

“It is difficult not to write satire.”
― Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

“Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.”
― Juvenal

“Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.”
― Juvenal

“It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.”
― Juvenal

“For no deity is held in such reverence amongst us as Wealth; though as yet, O baneful money, thou hast no temple of thine own; not yet have we reared altars to Money in like manner as we worship Peace and Honour, Victory and Virtue”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires