Juvenal Quotes

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

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

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

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

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

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

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

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

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

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

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

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

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

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

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

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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

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

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

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

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

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

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

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.