Bestowed Commands Quotes by Juvenal

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• Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
• Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
• Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
• All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
• This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
• The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women,…
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
• Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
• A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
• The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
• No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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