Juvenal

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition).


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Quote Left Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. Quote Right
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Quote Left Luxury is more deadly than any foe. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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 Quote Right
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Quote Left Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. Quote Right
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Quote Left Peace visits not the guilty mind. Quote Right
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