Juvenal Quotes
b. 140
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 55 – c. 140), anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.
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Also known as: Quis custodiet ispos custodes
111 quotes
Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy.
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
One has no protecting power save prudence.
The love of pelf increases with the pelf.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?But who is to guard the guards themselves?
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Juvenal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.