Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Juvenal (Roman Poet)

Juvenal (c.60–c.140,) Latin name Decimus Junius Juvenalis, was the greatest of the Roman satirists. Juvenal’s sixteen verse Satires are a savage and rhetorical denunciation of Roman society under the emperor Domitian—the corruption of society and the idiocies and brutalities of humankind.

Nothing definite is known about Juvenal’s life. His time overlapped with an eventful epoch of Roman history, one in which the failings of the government and the depravities of society were especially grave and evident.

Satires is most bitter against foreigners—Greeks, Syrians, and particularly Jews who, he felt, caused the decline and fall of the old Roman way of life.

Juvenal’s vivid portrayals of Roman life inspired such satirists as Giovanni Boccaccio, Nicolas Boileau, and Lord Byron. The phrase “Juvenalian satire” still represents a critique of contemporary people and institutions in Juvenal’s style.

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal
Topics: Fame

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal
Topics: Motivation

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Juvenal
Topics: Age, Aging

No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance ot prudence.
Juvenal
Topics: Prudence

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
Juvenal
Topics: Poverty

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Juvenal
Topics: Madness, Wealth

Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
Juvenal
Topics: Poverty

No one every suddenly became depraved.
Juvenal
Topics: Desires

Look around the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Juvenal
Topics: Helping, Career

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

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Juvenal
Topics: Integrity

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Juvenal
Topics: Modesty, Humility

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Juvenal
Topics: Money

Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal
Topics: Wisdom

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Juvenal
Topics: Fear

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Juvenal
Topics: Cities, City Life

Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
Juvenal
Topics: One liners

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Juvenal
Topics: Death

Censure pardons the ravens, but rebukes the doves.
Juvenal

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

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Juvenal
Topics: Persistence, Adversity, Happiness

What is the use of your pedigrees?
Juvenal
Topics: Aristocracy

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
Juvenal
Topics: Sin

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
Juvenal
Topics: Cynicism

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Juvenal
Topics: Writing

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
Juvenal
Topics: Example

Vice can deceive under the shadow and guise of virtue.
Juvenal
Topics: Vice

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Juvenal
Topics: Luck

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

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