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Juvenal Quotes about Giving

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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

Juvenal
Giving, Circus, Bread

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

Juvenal
Giving, Reason Why, Bliss

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal
Giving, Soul, Promise
Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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.

Juvenal
Men, Giving
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Satires, X, line 349, 1922.

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

Juvenal
Giving, Joy, Pleasure
Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.460

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