Juvenal Quotes:

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 297, 1890.

Topics: Beauty, Unions, Purity, Rare Beauty, Rarity

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

source: - "Satires".

Topics: Health, Mind, Body, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Topics: Nature, Doe, Inspirational Earth, One With Nature, Nature And Life

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Topics: Giving, Circus, Bread, Bread And Circuses

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

Topics: Knowledge, Wish, Pay, Hungry For Knowledge, Thirst For Knowledge

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Topics: People, Poverty, Cloaks

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Topics: Peace, Mind, Peace Of Mind

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Topics: Wisdom, Overcoming, Fortune

Be gentle with the young.

Topics: Children, Young, Gentle

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Topics: Example, Depraved

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Topics: Revenge, Mind, Littles, Best Revenge, Narrow Minds

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

Topics: Growth, Care, Know Thyself, Personal Growth And Development, Self Growth

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

Topics: Inspirational, Shining, Quality, Diamond In The Rough, Exterior

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Topics: 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.]

Topics: 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.]

Topics: Home, Poverty, Ability

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

Topics: Lions, Beard, Pluck

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Topics: House, Lasts, Disgrace

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

Topics: Lying, Depth, Poverty

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Topics: Insult, Insulted, Capable, Insults You

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Topics: Age, Incessant, Old Age

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

Topics: Want, Rich, Get Rich

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

Topics: 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!

Topics: Two, People, Bread, Bread And Circuses

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Topics: Missing, Vines, Widowed

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

Topics: Poverty, Traveler

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

Topics: Ravens, Wicked, Innocent

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

Topics: Hatred, Healed, Wounds

Be a gentleman farmer.

Topics: Gentleman, Farmers

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Topics: Kind, Beast, Kindred

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Topics: Excess, Wealth

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

Topics: Nice, Italian, Hell, Go To Hell

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Topics: Strong, Men, Sin

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Topics: Appearance, Shows

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Topics: Hope, Learning, Wish

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Topics: Crowns, Crime, Crosses

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Topics: Wife, Dowry, Attraction

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

Topics: Revenge, Mind, Littles, Little Minds

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Topics: Revenge, Mind, Pleasure, Nemo, Weak Women

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

Topics: Order, Reason

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Topics: Wish, Reason, Pleasure

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Topics: Men, Hardship, Poverty

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Topics: Poverty, Madness, Rich

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Topics: Gold, Increase, Avarice

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Topics: Amor, Increase, Quantum

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Topics: Taught, Imitation

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.]

Topics: Punishment, Evil, Guilt, Nemo

Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

Topics: Grief, Blow, Men

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Topics: Purple, Gains, Grapes

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Topics: Circles, Example, Authority

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

Topics: Punishment, Tyrants, Envy, Sicilian

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Topics: Ambition, Tables, Height

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

Topics: Eating, Reason, Solo, Palate

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.

Topics: Pain, Night, Fierce, Accusers

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Topics: Autumn, Greedy, Harvest

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

Topics: Men, Purses, Empty

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Topics: Writing, Talent, Failing, Indignation

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Topics: Wise, Men, Desire

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Topics: Tongue, Worst, Servant

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

Topics: Teacher, Dishes

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Topics: Eclipse, Pupils, Tutor, Warrants

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Topics: Dinner, Gains, Fine

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Topics: Vices, Popularity

The itch of scribbling.

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

Topics: Guilty, Thunder, Pale

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

Topics: Grapes, Contact

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Topics: Men, Coats, May

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

Topics: Bottom, Lawsuit

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Topics: Appearance, Reliance

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Topics: War, Luxury

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Topics: Shadow, Vices, Deceiving

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

Topics: Heart, Race, Tears

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Topics: Selfishness

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

Topics: Triumph, Chance

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Topics: Too Late, Retreat

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

Topics: Doors, Done, Mischief

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Topics: Gains, Expenses, Livelihood

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Topics: Please

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

Topics: Men, Wife, Kind

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

Topics: Sorrow, Finishing, Strokes

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

Topics: Men, Wicked, Wicked Man

Men who only live to eat.

Topics: Men

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Topics: Men, Play, Saint

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Topics: Mistake, Youth, Allowance

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Topics: White, Laughing, Clubs

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Topics: Eye, Ears, Youth

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Topics: Beloved

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Topics: Desire, Blind, Impulse

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Topics: Gone, Passages, Folly

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

Topics: Assuming, Crime, Audacious

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Topics: Long, Purses

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Topics: Pedigree

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Topics: Faces, Attraction

The arrows are from her dowry.

Topics: Arrows, Dowry

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

Topics: Block, Abuse

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Topics: Tears, Minutes, Duty

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Topics: Mean, Men, Way

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Topics: Virtue, Glory, Thirst

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Topics: Intercourse

Savage bears agree with one another.

Topics: Savages, Bears, Agree

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Topics: Pleasure, Indulgence

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Topics: Ruins, Pillars, Fame

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

Topics: Toss, Fool, Wheels

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

Topics: Men, Crime

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Topics: Men, Crime, He Man

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

Topics: Revenge, Rejoice

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Topics: Honesty, Cold

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Topics: Fruit, Crime, Remorse

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Topics: Peace, Path, Virtue

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Topics: Friendship, Money, Wealth

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Topics: Ambitious, Poverty, States

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Topics: Men, Poverty, Faces, Robbers

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Topics: Good Luck, Luck, Winner

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Topics: Writing, Insane, Possession

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Topics: Ravens, Censorship, Dove, Censure

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 53, Satires, XII, line 50, 1922.

Topics: Men, Fortune, Enjoy

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

Topics: Giving, Soul, Promise

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

source: - Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

Topics: Mother, Giving Up, Law, Mother In Law

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Topics: Writing

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Topics: Heart, Blessing, Suffering, Desirable

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Topics: Men, Evil, Wicked

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Topics: Lust, Depraved

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Topics: Fear, Hate, Men

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Topics: Men, Long, Envy

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Topics: People, Reverse

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Topics: Men, White, Luck, Lucky Man

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Topics: Home, Mind, Vices

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.

Topics: Love, Love Of Money, Grows, Love And Money

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Topics: Watches, Censorship, Watchers

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Topics: Different, Crowns, Bears

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

Topics: Writing, Sick, Mind, Incurable Disease

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Topics: Wisdom, Watches, Custody, Watchers

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Topics: Men, Wealth, Fortune

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Topics: Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

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

Topics: Order, Want, Madness

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Topics: Snakes, Fellowship, Today

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

source: - Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

Topics: Two, Long, People, Bread And Circuses

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Topics: House, Servant, Haughty

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

Topics: Men, Wealth, Truthfulness

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

Topics: Prayer, Lying, Believe, Length Of Life, Sound Body

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

Topics: Disease, Flocks, Whole

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Topics: Writing, World, Satire

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Topics: Kindness, Lying, Dishonesty

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

Topics: Pleasure, Produce, Indulgence

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Topics: Integrity, Virtue

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

Topics: Hate, Shame

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, XII, line 20, 1922.

Topics: Happiness, Overcoming, Bears

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

source: - Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

Topics: Luxury, Enjoyment, Foe

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Topics: Wealthy

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, VIII, line 73, 1922.

Topics: Men, Common Sense, Wealth

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Topics: Fear, Desire, Reason

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Topics: Mean, Prison, Virtue

The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Topics: Path, Life Is, Virtue

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

Topics: Heart, Men, Guilt, Verdict

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

source: - Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

Topics: Women, Wrath, Inspire, Caught In The Act

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 180, 1890.

Topics: Revenge, Thinking, Fool, Revenge Is Sweet

But who guards the guardians?

Topics: Guardian, Security

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Topics: Luck, Mirth, Beholder

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

Topics: Loss, Medicine, Mind, Sound Mind, Sound Body

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

source: - Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.198

Topics: Inspirational, Eye, Sweat

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

Topics: Prudence

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 419-23, Satires, XI, line 27, 1922.

Topics: Knowledge, Heaven, Know Thyself

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Topics: Virtue, Nobility

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Topics: Nature

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

source: - Juvenal (1873). “D. Iunii Iuvenalis satirae, with a literal tr. and notes, by J.D. Lewis”, p.68

Topics: War, Luxury, Long

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

source: - Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.451

Topics: Beauty, Mind, Body

Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

Topics: Nemo, Depravity, Depraved

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Topics: Mean, Dare, Worthy

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Topics: Men, Crime, Found

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 622-24, Satires, IV, line 70, 1922.

Topics: Believe, Power, Equal

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

Topics: Pockets, Thieves, Faces, Empty Pockets

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.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, IX, line 127, 1890.

Topics: Life, Flower, Wine, Women And Wine

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

Topics: Years

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Topics: Inheritance, Heirs, Enjoy

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.

Topics: Children, Powerful, Reason, Misdeeds

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Topics: Money, Rome, May

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

Topics: Guidance, Protection, Prudence

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

Topics: Care, Riches, Estates

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Topics: Girl, Gay, Happy Life, Wreaths, Unhappy Life

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Topics: Heirs, Wealth, Profit

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 808-9, Satires, IX, line 120, 1922.

Topics: Tongue, Slave

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VIII, line 76, 1890.

Topics: Fame, Wretched

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

source: - Juvenal (1967). “The Sixteen Satires”

Topics: Globes, Youthful Arrogance

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

Topics: Majestic, Wealth

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Topics: Rewards, Virtue, Fame

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

source: - Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.423

Topics: Want, Painting, Paint

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

Topics: Want, Transportation, Ifs

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

Topics: Fisherman, Fishes

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Topics: Men, Plates, Expenses

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Topics: Honesty, Freeze, Left

It is difficult not to write satire.

source: - Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.204

Topics: Writing, Satire, Difficult

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Topics: Secret, Executioners, Scourge, Shaking

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

Topics: Military, Men, Long Ago, Military Command, Bread And Circuses

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 172, 1890.

Topics: Death, Men, Body

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

Topics: Mind, Faults, Guilty

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 39, 1890.

Topics: Forgiveness, Humble, People, Extremity

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Topics: Prudence, Absent

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

Topics: Healthy, Mind, Body, Sana, Healthy Body

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

source: - "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 103, 1922.

Topics: Bears, Different, Crowns

Dedicate one's life to truth.

source: - "Satires". Book by Juvenal, IV, line 91, 1890.