Juvenal quotes:

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

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

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

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

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

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

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

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

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]

The arrows are from her dowry.

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

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

Quid Romae faciam? mentiri nescio; librum, si malus est, nequeo laudare et poscere; motus astrorum ignoro; funus promittere patris nec uolo nec possum; ranarum uiscera numquam inspexi; ferre ad nuptam quae mittit adulter, quae mandat, norunt alii; me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo tamquam mancus et extinctae corpus non utile dextrae.

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

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

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

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

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

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.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

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

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

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

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

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

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived

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..but who will guard the guardians?

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

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

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

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

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Who watches the watchmen?

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 upon us. [Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]

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 upon us.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

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

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

But who guards the guardians?

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

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

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

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

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

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

Be gentle with the young.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

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

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]

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

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

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.]

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

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

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself. [Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di, Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]

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

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

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

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

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

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.

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

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

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

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

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

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.