Juvenal Quotes

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

But who guards the guardians?

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

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

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

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

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

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

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

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

The arrows are from her dowry.

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

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

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.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

Savage bears agree with one another.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

No man becomes bad all at once.

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.