One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
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Peace visits not the guilty mind.
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Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
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Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
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The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses
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Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
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But who is to guard the guards themselves
Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)
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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
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All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
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