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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