Juvenal Quotes - Page 12

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

Be a gentleman farmer.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

The act of God injures no one.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]