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What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent
of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
[Lat., Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non poeniteat
votique peracti?]
Judgment
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (X, 5)
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
Crime
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (XIII, 103)
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Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when
you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)?
[Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora senex?
Example
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (XIV, 56)
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Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of
Latin.
[Lat., Omnia Graece!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]
Linguists
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (VI, 187), (second line said to be spurious)
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Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or
the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
[Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,
Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]
Ancestry
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (VIII, 1)
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Power
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (IV, 70)
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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]
Faults
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (II, 24)
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And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but borne to die.
Scandal
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satires (IX), (Harvey's translation)
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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll,
Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;
That kindred feelings might our state improve,
And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
Humanity
Quotes, by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) , Source: Satire XV (l. 203)
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