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Juvenal quotes, quotations, sayings

Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
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Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
 1004    
Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
Juvenal
 1004    
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)
Juvenal
 1004    
Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
 1004    
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
 1004    
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
 1004    
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Juvenal, Satires
 1004    
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
 1004    
A healthy mind in a healthy body.
Juvenal
 1004    
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Juvenal
 1004    
You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
Ron Howard
 1004    
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
What is the use of your pedigrees?
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
No one every suddenly became depraved.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.
Charles Dickens
 1004    
It is difficult not to write satire.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
 1004    
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
 1004    


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