count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour,… - Juvenal

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count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having.

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 55 – c. 140), anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.

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Native Name: Decimus Iunius Iuuenalis

Alternative Names: Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis • Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.

..but who will guard the guardians?

count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having. - Juvenal

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