Juvenal Quotes - Page 7

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Who watches the watchmen?

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]