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Juvenal

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No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.


— Juvenal


#ever #extremely #suddenly #wicked

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.


— Juvenal


#leap #reached #vice #worst

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.


— Juvenal


#globe #seemed #small #too #youthful

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.


— Juvenal


#frequently #most #our #vices #virtues

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.


— Juvenal


#caused #dispute #hardly #which #woman

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.


— Juvenal


#first #guilty #heart #his #man

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.


— Juvenal


#men #poverty #qualities #rise #thwarted

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.


— Juvenal


#eyes #sweat #tears

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.


— Juvenal


#diamonds #exterior #individuals #like #many

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


#disgraceful #ever #greatest #ignore #mind






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The details of the author's life are unclear although.

While the Satires are a vital source for the study of ancient Rome from a vast number of perspectives their hyperbolic comedic mode of expression makes the use of statements found within them as simple fact problematic. In accord with the manner of Lucilius—the originator of the genre of Roman satire—and within a poetic tradition that also included Horace and Persius Juvenal wrote at least 16 poems in dactylic hexameter covering an encyclopedic range of topics across the Roman world.

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