Juvenal Quotes

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

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

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

The itch of scribbling.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

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

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Be a gentleman farmer.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

Men who only live to eat.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Savage bears agree with one another.

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

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

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

No man becomes bad all at once.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.

Honesty is admired, and starves.

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

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

I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

The smell of profit is clean and sweet whatever the source.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.