Juvenal Quotes - Page 2

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.