Juvenal Quotes

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Be a gentleman farmer.

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.