Famous Juvenal Quotations

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"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."
by Juvenal
"A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired."
by Juvenal
"A healthy mind in a healthy body."
by Juvenal
"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."
by Juvenal
"All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price."
by Juvenal
"Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)"
by Juvenal
"Be gentle with the young."
by Juvenal
"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends."
by Juvenal
"But who is to guard the guards themselves"
by Juvenal
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having."
by Juvenal
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."
by Juvenal
"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
by Juvenal
"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
by Juvenal
"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
by Juvenal
"Luxury is more deadly than any foe."
by Juvenal
"Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another."
by Juvenal
"Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman."
by Juvenal
"One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue."
by Juvenal
"One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue."
by Juvenal
"Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)"
by Juvenal
"Peace visits not the guilty mind."
by Juvenal
"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."
by Juvenal
"Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved."
by Juvenal
"Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think the fools."
by Juvenal
"The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses"
by Juvenal
"The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!"
by Juvenal
"Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living."
by Juvenal
"Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses."
by Juvenal
"Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)"
by Juvenal
"You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body."
by Juvenal
"The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us."
by Juvenal
"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
by Juvenal
"What is the use of your pedigrees?"
by Juvenal
"Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."
by Juvenal
"Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games."
by Juvenal
"All things may be bought in Rome with money."
by Juvenal
"Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown."
by Juvenal
"I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me."
by Charles Dickens
"It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others."
by Juvenal
"Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs."
by Juvenal
"So rare is the union of beauty with modesty."
by Juvenal
"Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold."
by Juvenal
"A lucky man is rarer than a white crow."
by Juvenal
"A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul."
by Juvenal
"The love of money grows as the money itself grows."
by Juvenal
"Nature never says one thing and wisdom another."
by Juvenal
"From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?"
by Juvenal
"Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once."
by Juvenal
"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face."
by Juvenal
"Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty."
by Juvenal
"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior."
by Juvenal
"Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last."
by Juvenal
"The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source."
by Juvenal
"It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die."
by Juvenal
"Quin custodiet custodes ipsos? Who will guard the guardians?"
by Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis), 1st cent. A.D
"Who watches the Watchmen?"
by Juvenal


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