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Food Quotes by Juvenal

10 Food quotes by Juvenal

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Juvenal’s ten short verses bring a Roman‑era satire to modern meals, using food as a lens to critique excess and moral lapses.

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To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

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Men who only live to eat.

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To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

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Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

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The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

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The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

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

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

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To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

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Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

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Everything in Rome has its price.

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Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

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Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

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

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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.

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

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Who is to guard the guards themselves?

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Dedicate one's life to truth

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

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Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

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