Juvenal Quotes

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

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

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

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

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

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

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

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

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

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

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

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

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

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

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.]

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

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

The act of God injures no one.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

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

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

No one becomes depraved all at once.

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.]

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

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

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

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

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

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

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

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

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

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

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

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

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

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

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.