Juvenal Quotes

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

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

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

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

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

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

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

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

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

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

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

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

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

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

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

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

Everything in Rome has its price.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

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

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

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

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

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

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

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

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

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

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.