Top 299 Quotes & Sayings by Juvenal - Page 4
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
No man becomes bad all at once.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
[Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
Savage bears agree with one another.
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
[Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae
Atque pudicitiae.]
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
Men who only live to eat.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Everything in Rome has its price.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
Of what avail are pedigrees?
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath,
At most seven inches from the jaws of death.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
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