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“Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living” quote by Juvenal — Download Open image

“Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living”

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Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

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Everything in Rome has its price.

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Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age…

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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.

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

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Who is to guard the guards themselves?

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Dedicate one's life to truth

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A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

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Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

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