Juvenal famous quotes

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

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.
-- Juvenal

#Excess #Wealth

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

#Nice #Italian #Hell

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

#Strong #Men #Sin

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

#Appearance #Shows

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

#Hope #Learning #Wish

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

#Crowns #Crime #Crosses

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

#Wife #Dowry #Attraction

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

#Revenge #Mind #Littles

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

#Revenge #Mind #Pleasure

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

#Order #Reason

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

#Wish #Reason #Pleasure

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

#Men #Hardship #Poverty

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

#Poverty #Madness #Rich

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
-- Juvenal

#Gold #Increase #Avarice

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

#Amor #Increase #Quantum

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

#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.]
-- Juvenal

#Punishment #Evil #Guilt

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.]
-- Juvenal

#Grief #Blow #Men

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

#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.
-- Juvenal

#Circles #Example #Authority

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
-- Juvenal

#Punishment #Tyrants #Envy

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

#Ambition #Tables #Height

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

#Eating #Reason #Solo

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.
-- Juvenal

#Pain #Night #Fierce

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
-- Juvenal

#Autumn #Greedy #Harvest

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

#Men #Purses #Empty

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.
-- Juvenal

#Writing #Talent #Failing

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
-- Juvenal

#Wise #Men #Desire

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

#Tongue #Worst #Servant

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

#Teacher #Dishes

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
-- Juvenal

#Eclipse #Pupils #Tutor

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

#Dinner #Gains #Fine

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

#Vices #Popularity

The itch of scribbling.
-- Juvenal

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

#Guilty #Thunder #Pale

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

#Grapes #Contact

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

#Men #Coats #May

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

#Bottom

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

#Appearance #Reliance

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
-- Juvenal

#War #Luxury

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

#Shadow #Vices #Deceiving

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

#Heart #Race #Tears

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

#Selfishness

Wisdom triumphs over chance.
-- Juvenal

#Triumph #Chance

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

#Too Late #Retreat

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

#Doors #Done #Mischief

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

#Gains #Expenses

Those things please more, which are more expensive.
-- Juvenal

#Please

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

#Men #Wife #Kind

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
-- Juvenal

#Sorrow #Finishing #Strokes

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

#Men #Wicked

Men who only live to eat.
-- Juvenal

#Men

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

#Men #Play #Saint

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
-- Juvenal

#Mistake #Youth #Allowance

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

#White #Laughing #Clubs

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

#Eye #Ears #Youth

Let him love none and be by none beloved!
-- Juvenal

#Beloved

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
-- Juvenal

#Desire #Blind #Impulse

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

#Gone #Passages #Folly

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

#Assuming #Crime #Audacious

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

#Long #Purses

Of what avail are pedigrees?
-- Juvenal

#Pedigree

The face, not the woman is the attraction.
-- Juvenal

#Faces #Attraction

The arrows are from her dowry.
-- Juvenal

#Arrows #Dowry

The abuse of cabmen in a block.
-- Juvenal

#Block #Abuse

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

#Tears #Minutes #Duty

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

#Mean #Men #Way

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

#Virtue #Glory #Thirst

See the effect of commercial intercourse.
-- Juvenal

#Intercourse

Savage bears agree with one another.
-- Juvenal

#Savages #Bears #Agree