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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

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The traveller with empty pockets will sing even in the robber's face.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.

As much as the whale of Britain exceeds dolphins.

No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once.

There is great unanimity among the dissolute.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

But who will guard the guardians themselves?

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

The greatest reverence is due the young.

No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

Unhappy man! He frets at the narrow limits of the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Juvenal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.