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 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 Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. Quote Right
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Quote Left Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. Quote Right
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