The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers … - Juvenal

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Juvenal

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. [Lat. , Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus. ]

Flosculus, Flower, Life, Sera, Wine

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The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]

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Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]

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Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]

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A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

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