(78 quotes found)
“Wisdom is the winner over good luck”
Juvenal
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
“The blind envy the one-eyed”
“Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living”
“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind”
“In times like these it is difficult not to write satire”
“No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.”
“'Tis unto children most respect is due”
“Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast”
