Top 299 Quotes & Sayings by Juvenal

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Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the Satires. The details of Juvenal's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late first and early second centuries AD fix his earliest date of composition. One recent scholar argues that his first book was published in 100 or 101. A reference to a political figure dates his fifth and final surviving book to sometime after 127.

Roman - Poet | 60 - 130

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

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Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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

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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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

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There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

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

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

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

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For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

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

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One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

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It is difficult not to write satire.

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

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No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

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When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

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Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

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

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Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

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

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

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When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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Remorse is the fruit of crime.

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Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

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In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

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

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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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

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Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

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There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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To have slaved so many years for nothing!

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It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

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Integrity is praised, and starves.

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

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The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

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

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Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

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

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

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

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This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

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Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

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

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The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

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

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Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

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We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

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Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

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