Author of quotes: Decimus Junius Juvenal



The highest shame is to lose the meaning of life for the sake of life.
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never rebel.
№ 415260   Added MegaMozg 19-03-2021 / 14:48
What could be worse than a wrong balance, a false weight, or a just and honest person who has become a deceiver?
№ 409449   Added MegaMozg 15-12-2020 / 21:09
Every impartially solved matter deprives lies of power, affirms the truth, creates good and destroys evil like food that destroys hunger, like clothes that cover nakedness, just as the sky clears after a fierce thunderstorm and the sun warms all frozen, like fire that fries what was damp, like water that quenches thirst.
№ 409448   Added MegaMozg 15-12-2020 / 21:06
Persistent itching of the writing strikes many and forever rooted in their insane breast.
№ 358715   Added Viker 27-01-2019 / 12:00
Here outfits Shine superior strength, spend here
More than you need, though sometimes from someone else's pocket;
This is a common Vice: we all brag and poverty.
A lot of what to say? To all in Rome price is:
How much to pay to Koss to welcome you sometime personally
So you Weynton looked, and his mouth never opened!
Shaves the same, and this cuts the hair from the pet;
Full of festive cakes home; take it, but - for a fee:
We, customers, have to pay a kind of file
Elegant even servants multiplying their savings.
Quote Explanation: *Koss, a member of the noble family of Cornelia Lentulov. *Weirton - confidant of the Emperor Domitian.
№ 311185   Added MegaMozg 16-12-2017 / 16:04
Ask first about the qualifications (about manners - after only):
How much is the slaves but how much land
How much he eats meals at the table and what size?
Rome trusts the one who keeps in the casket my money:
More coins - more faith.
Quote Explanation: *Census – the census valuation of the property showed that the level of welfare of citizens in the Roman Empire.
№ 311184   Added MegaMozg 16-12-2017 / 16:03
Rumor goes that one Armenian Salak - razvesena
All together efebo lives, they say, with love tribune.
Look at what they are doing communication: a hostage has arrived -
Here the man has become; have been able to stay longer
In the city the little boy, and so he is patron there;
Throw off pants, threw daggers, bridles and whips:
So in Artaxata are the youth of the capital's morals.
Quote Explanation: In artaxata (Neroniya, Artashat) is a town in the Ararat province of Armenia. After he was restored by the Roman artisans of the Emperor Nero, the city was renamed in Neronia. The modern name of the city of Artashat.
№ 311180   Added MegaMozg 16-12-2017 / 15:02
Fortunately, the nature of the soul does not give more rights over the body:
These "spouses" children will not leave and will not help them
Fat grandmother Lidice with her bubbles and ointment
Or blow on the hands from quickly running supercow.
Quote Explanation: Speech about same-sex relationships and marriages.
№ 311177   Added MegaMozg 16-12-2017 / 14:03
Over straight legged laughs, and the blacks white.
№ 311176   Added MegaMozg 16-12-2017 / 14:02
The rock gives the slaves of the Kingdom, delivers the captives triumphs,
However, the less fortunate such white crows exist.
№ 310945   Added MegaMozg 14-12-2017 / 19:02
The traveller who has nothing with him, can sing in the presence of the robber.
№ 230857   Added MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 17:49
Wisdom does not say what is contrary to nature.
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The first punishment for the guilty is that it cannot justify before own court.
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No redeeming virtue not Vice.
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