Famous Quotes / Juvenal
58 Quotations by Juvenal
- 21. I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
- 22. Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
- 23. It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
- 24. It is difficult not to write satire.
- 25. It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- 26. It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
- 27. Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
- 28. Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, ...
- 29. Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
- 30. Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
- 31. No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
- 32. No one every suddenly became depraved.
- 33. Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
- 34. Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a con ...
- 35. One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
- 36. Peace visits not the guilty mind.
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- 37. Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we ...
- 38. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
- 39. So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
- 40. The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into o ...