Memorable Quotes and quotations from Juvenal

Juvenal Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)


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- Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

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- Be gentle with the young.

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

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- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

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

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- One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

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- A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Juvenal - Satires
- You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal - Satires
- The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

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- 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.

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- Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

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- Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)

Juvenal - Satires
- Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal - Satires
- Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)