Juvenal quotes - page 2

The love of money grows as the money itself grows. (Juvenal)
Be gentle with the young. View quote
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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends. View quote
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. View quote
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One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue. View quote
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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. View quote
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MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. View quote
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If your stars go against you, the fantastic size of your cock will get you precisely nowhere, however much Virro may have drooled at the spectacle of your naked charms, though love-letters come in by the dozen, imploring your favors. View quote
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The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony. View quote
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Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove. View quote
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But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends! (Juvenal)
The question is not put how far extends His piety, but what he yearly spends; Quick, to the business; how he lives and eats; How largely gives; how splendidly he treats; How many thousand acres feed his sheep; What are his rents; what servants does he keep? The account is soon cast up; the judges rate Our credit in the court by our estate. View quote
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. View quote
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. View quote
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A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. View quote
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There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman. View quote
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The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous. View quote
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Who watches the watchmen? View quote
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Órandúm (e)st ut sít mens sán(a) in córpore sáno. View quote
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Peace visits not the guilty mind. View quote
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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. (Juvenal)

Juvenal

Juvenal - Image
Occupation: Roman Poet
Born: 55
Died: 100
Quotes count: 46
Wikipedia: Juvenal

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