Juvenal Quotes

#1. Yeah, ESP," Juvenal said. "You know how you do it? You listen to the other person instead of thinking of what you're gonna say next. That's all, and you learn things.

Elmore Leonard

#2. No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of its years. Dr Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, loved it enough to see it with the eyes of truth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. [It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

George Washington

#5. I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Walter Scott

#6. If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Voltaire

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#10. Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#13. Let him love none and be by none beloved!

Juvenal

#14. Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#18. In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#20. 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.]

Juvenal

#21. Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

#22. Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#25. Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Juvenal

#26. Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#29. The act of God injures no one.

Juvenal

#30. There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#32. This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#34. There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Juvenal

#35. 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.]

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#37. A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal

#38. Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

#39. The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Juvenal

#40. Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Juvenal

#41. If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.

Juvenal

#42. The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#44. Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Juvenal

#45. The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#47. All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

Juvenal

#48. For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Juvenal

#49. See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Juvenal

#50. Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

Juvenal

#51. One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Juvenal

#52. Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Juvenal

#53. Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#55. Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#57. It is difficult not to write satire.

Juvenal

#58. No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#60. Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#62. Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

Juvenal

#63. The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
[Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Juvenal

#64. Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

#65. The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

#66. The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

Juvenal

#67. 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.

Juvenal

#68. No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#70. Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Juvenal

#71. Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Juvenal

#72. The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Juvenal

#73. But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

Juvenal

#74. All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

#75. I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Juvenal

#76. Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Juvenal

#77. Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#79. Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Juvenal

#80. Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

Juvenal

#81. Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

Juvenal

#82. Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Juvenal

#83. Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Juvenal

#84. ..but who will guard the guardians?

Juvenal

#85. Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Juvenal

#86. Dedicate one's life to truth

Juvenal

#87. The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#89. This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

Juvenal

#90. Savage bears agree with one another.

Juvenal

#91. Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Juvenal

#92. The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

Juvenal

#93. Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#95. By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Juvenal

#96. Men who only live to eat.

Juvenal

#97. We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Juvenal

#98. No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Juvenal

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

Juvenal

#100. O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Juvenal