Juvenal Quotes
- Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
- Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
- Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
- All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
- This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
- The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is…
- Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
- A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
- The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
- It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
- No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
- It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
- The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
- A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
- Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
- Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
- A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
- Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
- Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak