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"It is difficult not to write satire"
Juvenal, Poet
"I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason"
Juvenal, Poet
"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes"
Juvenal, Poet
"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price"
Juvenal, Poet
"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years"
Juvenal, Poet
"Hear the other side"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"He that is jealous is not in love"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better"
Claudius, Leader
"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say"
Claudius, Leader
"Acquaintance lessens fame"
Claudius, Leader
"Persevere in virtue and diligence"
Plautus, Playwright
"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money"
Plautus, Playwright
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend"
Plautus, Playwright
"The evil that we know is best"
Plautus, Playwright
"Your wealth is where your friends are"
Plautus, Playwright
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"
Plautus, Playwright
"Where there are friends there is wealth"
Plautus, Playwright
"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler"
Plautus, Playwright
"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish"
Plautus, Playwright
"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother"
Plautus, Playwright
"The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture"
Plautus, Playwright
"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days"
Plautus, Playwright
"No blessing lasts forever"
Plautus, Playwright
"Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know"
Plautus, Playwright
"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words"
Plautus, Playwright
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