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Famous Juvenal Quotes
“The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
“Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.”
Source: Juvenal and Persius
“A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.”
Source: Juvenal and Persius
“Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.”
“They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.”