Juvenal Quotes - Page 10

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face

No man ever became very wicked all at once.

Savage bears agree with one another.

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

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]