Juvenal Quotes - Page 4

But who guards the guardians?

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.