Juvenal Quotes

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

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

The act of God injures no one.

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

The itch of scribbling.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

The face, not the woman is the attraction.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

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

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

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

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

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

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

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

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

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

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.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

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.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Be gentle with the young.

Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.