Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.”

— Juvenal

2. “Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”

— Juvenal

3. “But who guards the guardians?”

— Juvenal

4. “Mens Sana In Corpore Sano.”

— Juvenal

5. “A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.”

— Juvenal

6. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Who will watch the watchers?”

— Juvenal

7. “Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”

— Juvenal

8. “Astrology reveals the will of the gods.”

— Juvenal

9. “You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”

— Juvenal

10. “The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.”

— Juvenal

11. “Peace visits not the guilty mind.”

— Juvenal

12. “Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.”

— Juvenal

13. “Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

— Juvenal

14. “Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.”

— Juvenal

15. “There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.”

— Juvenal

16. “Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.”

— Juvenal

17. “Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.”

— Juvenal

18. “A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.”

— Juvenal

19. “The greatest respect is owed to a child.”

— Juvenal

20. “Be gentle with the young.”

— Juvenal

21. “Common sense among men of fortune is rare.”

— Juvenal

22. “Wisdom is the winner over good luck.”

— Juvenal

23. “The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.”

— Juvenal

24. “Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.”

— Juvenal

25. “Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.”

— Juvenal

26. “Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.”

— Juvenal

27. “Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. – Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.”

— Juvenal

28. “Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”

— Juvenal

29. “To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.”

— Juvenal

30. “All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

— Juvenal

31. “Honesty is praised and left in the cold.”

— Juvenal

32. “No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.”

— Juvenal

33. “Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.”

— Juvenal

34. “For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.”

— Juvenal

35. “Remote though your farm may be, It’s something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.”

— Juvenal

36. “The itch of scribbling.”

— Juvenal

37. “Be a gentleman farmer.”

— Juvenal

38. “Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.”

— Juvenal

39. “An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.”

— Juvenal

40. “It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.”

— Juvenal

41. “Who watches the watchmen?”

— Juvenal

42. “When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the confines of the world in life, in death, “a coffin was enough.”

— Juvenal

43. “It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”

— Juvenal

44. “No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence.”

— Juvenal

45. “The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.”

— Juvenal

46. “We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”

— Juvenal

47. “The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.”

— Juvenal

48. “Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.”

— Juvenal

49. “She knows no difference ’twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.”

— Juvenal

50. “It is difficult not to write satire.”

— Juvenal