Top 299 Quotes & Sayings by Juvenal - Page 5
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Roman poet Juvenal.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
[Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.]
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
[Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
[Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
The act of God injures no one.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
No one becomes depraved all at once.
Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
[Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
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.]
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
[Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
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.
What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
All wish to know, but few the price will pay.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
Who is to guard the guards themselves?
Be a gentleman farmer.
All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.
The itch of scribbling.
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Astrology reveals the will of the gods.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.
To lay down one's life for the truth.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
[Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
Related Authors
Alexander Pope Quotes
English
Poet
Emily Dickinson Quotes
American
Poet
George Herbert Quotes
British
Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
American
Poet
Homer Quotes
Greek
Poet
Horace Quotes
Roman
Poet
John Milton Quotes
English
Poet
Khalil Gibran Quotes
Lebanese
Poet
Lord Byron Quotes
British
Poet
Maya Angelou Quotes
American
Poet
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Irish
Poet
Ovid Quotes
Roman
Poet
T. S. Eliot Quotes
American
Poet
Walt Whitman Quotes
American
Poet
William Butler Yeats Quotes
Irish
Poet