Juvenal Quotes - Page 8

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Men who only live to eat.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Everything in Rome has its price.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.