Juvenal Quotes
b. 140
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 55 – c. 140), anglicized as Juvenal, was a Roman satiric poet.
Also known as: Quis custodiet ispos custodes
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The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.
Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast,
The repetition kills the wretch at last.
All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows;
And bid him go to hell—to hell he goes.
Let us moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
Now we are suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more destructive than war, has engrossed us, and avenges the vanquished world.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
In vain the Husband sets his watchful Spies;
She Cheats their cunning, or she bribes their Eyes.
It is an impious act to violate or break with the teeth a leek or an onion. O holy nations! whose gods grow for them in their gardens!
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign,
Can match the fierce, the unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day, devoid of rest,
Carries his own accuser in his breast.
Virtue is the one and only nobility.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll,
Breathed Life in them, in us a Reasoning Soul;
That kindred feelings might our state improve,
And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce
Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.
No man will get my help in robbery, and therefore no governor will take me on his staff
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Here we all live in ambitious poverty.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Honesty is praised, and starves.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
O heavens! while thus hoarse Codrus perseveres
To force his Theseid on my tortured ears,
Shall I not once attempt “to quit the score,”
Always an auditor, and nothing more!