Juvenal Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”
-- Juvenal

#Beauty #Unions #Purity

“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”
-- Juvenal

#Health #Mind #Body

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
-- Juvenal

#Nature #Doe

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt”
-- Juvenal

#Giving #Circus #Bread

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

#Knowledge #Wish #Pay

“Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak”
-- Juvenal

#People #Poverty #Cloaks

“Peace visits not the guilty mind.”
-- Juvenal

#Peace #Mind #Peace Of Mind

“Wisdom overcomes fortune.”
-- Juvenal

#Wisdom #Overcoming #Fortune

“Be gentle with the young.”
-- Juvenal

#Children #Young #Gentle

“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
-- Juvenal

#Example

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”
-- Juvenal

#Revenge #Mind #Littles

“Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.”
-- Juvenal

#Growth #Care #Know Thyself

“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”
-- Juvenal

#Inspirational #Shining #Quality

“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
-- Juvenal

#Men #Quality #Poverty

“Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]”
-- Juvenal

#Men #Trials #Poverty

“They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]”
-- Juvenal

#Home #Poverty #Ability

“Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]”
-- Juvenal

#Lions #Beard #Pluck

“He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.”
-- Juvenal

#House #Lasts #Disgrace

“Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.”
-- Juvenal

#Lying #Depth #Poverty

“If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.”
-- Juvenal

#Insult #Insulted #Capable

“But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!”
-- Juvenal

#Age #Incessant #Old Age

“He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.”
-- Juvenal

#Want #Rich #Get Rich

“There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.”
-- Juvenal

#Disputes #Cases

“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!”
-- Juvenal

#Two #People #Bread

“Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.”
-- Juvenal

#Missing #Vines

“The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]”
-- Juvenal

#Poverty #Traveler

“Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]”
-- Juvenal

#Ravens #Wicked #Innocent

“An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”
-- Juvenal

#Hatred #Healed #Wounds

“Be a gentleman farmer.”
-- Juvenal

#Gentleman #Farmers

“Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.”
-- Juvenal

#Kind #Beast #Kindred