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Quintus Ennius: 'To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'They hate whom they fear.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.'

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Quintus Ennius: 'Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.'

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Juvenal: 'Heiðarleikinn er lofaður en síðan skilinn eftir skjálfandi.'

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

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Juvenal: 'One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.'

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

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Juvenal: 'Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.'

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

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Juvenal: 'All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.'

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

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Juvenal: 'Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.'

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Juvenal: 'It is difficult not to write satire.'

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Juvenal: 'A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.'

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

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