Juvenal quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Juvenal

Juvenal Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Juvenal on Wise Famous Quotes.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

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

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

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

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

No man becomes bad all at once.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

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

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

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

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Savage bears agree with one another.

No one becomes depraved all at once.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

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

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

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

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

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

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

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

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

Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
[Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

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

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

The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

The itch of scribbling.

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

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

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

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

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

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

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

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Dedicate one's life to truth

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

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

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

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

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

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

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

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

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

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

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

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

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

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

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

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

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

..but who will guard the guardians?

There is great unanimity among the dissolute.
[Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

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

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

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

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

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

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

But who guards the guardians?

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

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

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

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

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