Juvenal Quotes

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

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

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

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

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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

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

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

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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

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!

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

But who guards the guardians?

To lay down one's life for the truth.

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.

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

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

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

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

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

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

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

Who watches the watchmen?

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

Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

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

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

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

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

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

Be gentle with the young.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

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

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

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

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

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

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