Juvenal Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

It is difficult not to write satire.

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

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

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

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

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

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

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

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

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

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

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

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

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

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

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

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

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

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

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

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

Integrity is praised, and starves.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

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

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.