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Men Quotes by Juvenal
- Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
- A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
- A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
- It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
- What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
- Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
- Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
- No man ever became very wicked all at once.
- Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a…
- This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
- Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
- By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
- One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
- Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
- Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
- Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
- Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
- A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
- Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from…
- The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
- Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
- There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
- Common sense among men of fortune is rare.
- No man becomes bad all at once.
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