Inspirational Quotes by Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

— Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

— Juvenal

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

— Juvenal

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

— Juvenal

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

— Juvenal

No one every suddenly became depraved.

— Juvenal

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

— Juvenal

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

— Juvenal

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

— Juvenal

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

— Juvenal

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

— Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

— Juvenal

But who guards the guardians?

— Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

— Juvenal

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

— Juvenal

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

— Juvenal

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

— Juvenal

Be gentle with the young.

— Juvenal

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

— Juvenal

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

— Juvenal

Integrity is praised, and starves.

— Juvenal

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

— Juvenal

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

— Juvenal

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

— Juvenal

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

— Juvenal

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

— Juvenal

Who is to guard the guards themselves?

— Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal