No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance ot prudence.
—Juvenal
Topics: Prudence
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
—Juvenal
Topics: Example
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
—Juvenal
Topics: Wisdom, Nature
Examples of vicious courses, practised in a domestic circle, corrupt more readily and more deeply, when we behold them in persons of authority.
—Juvenal
Topics: Example
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
—Juvenal
Topics: Madness, Wealth
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
—Juvenal
Topics: Sin
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
—Juvenal
Topics: Character
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
—Juvenal
Topics: People
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
—Juvenal
Topics: Fame
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
—Juvenal
Topics: Knowledge
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
—Juvenal
Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.
—Juvenal
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
—Juvenal
Topics: Revenge
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
—Juvenal
Topics: Wealth, Men
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
—Juvenal
Topics: Health, Prayer
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
—Juvenal
Topics: Aging, Age
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
—Juvenal
Topics: Prayer
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
—Juvenal
Topics: Wealth
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
—Juvenal
Topics: Crime, Criminals
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
—Juvenal
Topics: Quality
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
—Juvenal
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
—Juvenal
Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.
—Juvenal
Topics: Existence
Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous, and culpable, in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it.
—Juvenal
Despair of peace as long as your mother-in-law is alive.
—Juvenal
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
—Juvenal
Topics: Motivation
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
—Juvenal
Topics: Revenge, One liners, Vengeance
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
—Juvenal
Topics: Inheritance
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
—Juvenal
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
—Juvenal
Topics: Diet
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