Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
Juvenal Quotes
b. 140
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 55 – c. 140), anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.
- Poets
- Satirists
Also known as: Quis custodiet ispos custodes
111 quotes
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
I only feel, but want the power to paint.
Their conversation was brief, and their desire was to be silent.
This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.
Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Would to heaven he had given up to trifles like these all the time which he devoted to cruelty.
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
Go, climb the rugged Alps, ambitious fool,
To please the boys, and be a theme at school.
Attribution
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