Juvenal Quotes (53 Quotes)


    Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

    When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

    Be gentle with the young.

    All men's activities - their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and miscellaneous pursuits - is the hodge-podge of my book.

    Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.


    A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

    No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

    Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

    Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he had a tender heart this is our noblest quality

    When a man's life is at stake, no delay is too long

    Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

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

    One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

    A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.

    Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

    The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

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

    He that plots secret crime his soul within - Is straightaway guilty of the actual sin

    The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

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

    Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

    Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.

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

    What man have you ever seen who as content with one crime only

    Whate'er men do, or say, or think, or dream.

    No guilty man is acquitted at the bar of his own conscience

    They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

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

    A healthy mind in a healthy body.

    It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

    Virtue is the one and only nobility.

    Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

    Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

    Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages but we also judge those happy who have learned in the school of life how to bear its ills and not buck against the yoke

    Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

    It is difficult not to write satire.

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

    Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

    No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.

    It is not easy for men to emerge from obscurity if their qualities are thwarted by narrow means at home.

    Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

    I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

    The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

    Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

    All things may be bought in Rome with money.

    Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

    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

    Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

    What is the use of your pedigrees.

    Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.


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