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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Lost money is wept for with real tears.
He has in him more aloes than honey.
Parent and father of the fatherland,
Was Cicero styled by liberated Rome.
Dedicate one’s life to truth.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
If your stars go against you, the fantastic size of your cock will get you precisely nowhere, however much Virro may have drooled at the spectacle of your naked charms, though love-letters come in by the dozen, imploring your favors.
One moment of benignant fate.
From the day when the rain-clouds lifted up the waters, and Deucalion climbed that mountain in his ship to seek an oracle — that day when stones grew soft and warm with life, and Pyrrha showed maidens in nature's garb to men — all the doings of mankind, their vows, their fears, their angers and their pleasures, their joys and goings to and fro, shall form the motley subject of my page.
Alt. Translation: The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
No bad man is ever happy.
But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!