Juvenal Quotes

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.

Integrity is praised, and starves.

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.