It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
—Juvenal
Topics: Fame
Despair of peace as long as your mother-in-law is alive.
—Juvenal
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
—Juvenal
Topics: Wealth, Men
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
—Juvenal
Topics: Cities, City Life
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
—Juvenal
Topics: Knowledge
When thou art contemplating some base deed, let the presence of thy infant son act as a check on thy headlong course to sin.
—Juvenal
Topics: Parents
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance ot prudence.
—Juvenal
Topics: Prudence
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
Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
—Juvenal
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
—Juvenal
Topics: Sin
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
—Juvenal
Topics: Quality
Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal
Topics: Sports
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
—Juvenal
Topics: Poverty
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
—Juvenal
Topics: Diet
Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it.
—Juvenal
Topics: Crime
No man ever arrived suddenly at the summit of vice.
—Juvenal
Topics: Vice
What is the use of your pedigrees?
—Juvenal
Topics: Aristocracy
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
—Juvenal
Topics: Death
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
—Juvenal
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest.
—Juvenal
Topics: One liners
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
—Juvenal
Topics: Fear
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
—Juvenal
Topics: Age, Aging
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
—Juvenal
Topics: Integrity
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
—Juvenal
Topics: Prayer
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
—Juvenal
Topics: Servants, Service
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
—Juvenal
Topics: Punishment
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
—Juvenal
Topics: Patience
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
—Juvenal
Topics: Happiness, Persistence, Adversity
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
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
—Juvenal
Topics: Inheritance
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