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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.] — Juvenal

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. — Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal

Wisdom triumphs over chance. — Juvenal

The arrows are from her dowry. — Juvenal

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh. — Juvenal

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

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

To lay down one's life for the truth. — Juvenal

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

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. — Juvenal

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

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

Savage bears agree with one another. — Juvenal

Honesty is admired, and starves. — Juvenal

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

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

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. — Juvenal

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. — Juvenal

No one becomes depraved all at once. — Juvenal

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

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. — Juvenal

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. — Juvenal

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

Every great house is full of haughty servants. — Juvenal

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods. — Juvenal

Who is to guard the guards themselves? — Juvenal

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

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. — Juvenal

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. — Juvenal

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

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends. — Juvenal

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

Satire is what closes Saturday night. — Juvenal

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander. — Juvenal

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. — Juvenal

It is difficult not to write satire. — Juvenal

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal

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

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

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

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

The love of popularity holds you in a vice. — Juvenal

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

But who guards the guardians? — Juvenal

Be gentle with the young. — Juvenal

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

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

The act of God injures no one. — Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? — Juvenal

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. — Juvenal

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

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. — Juvenal

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

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

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate — Juvenal

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

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

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

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

Luxury is more deadly than any foe. — Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child. — Juvenal

Must this with farce and folly rack my
head unpunish'd ? that with sing-song,
Whine me dead? — Juvenal

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

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

No man ever became very wicked all at once. — Juvenal

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

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

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another. — Juvenal

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. — Juvenal

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves? — Juvenal

Of what avail are pedigrees? — Juvenal

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

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

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

..but who will guard the guardians? — Juvenal

The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.] — Juvenal

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

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

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

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. — Juvenal

When the mischief is done the door is shut. — Juvenal

See the effect of commercial intercourse. — Juvenal

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

Many have an irresistible itch for writing. — Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie. — Juvenal

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

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. — Juvenal

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

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] — Juvenal

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

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. — George Washington

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold. — Juvenal

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war. — Juvenal

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

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. — Juvenal

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

Nature and wisdom always say the same. — Juvenal

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

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