Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things – bread and circuses.”

— Juvenal

52. “It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.”

— Juvenal

53. “One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

55. “There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.”

— Juvenal

56. “Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.”

— Juvenal

57. “Everything in Rome has its price.”

— Juvenal

58. “It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.”

— Juvenal

59. “Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.”

— Juvenal

60. “No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.”

— Juvenal

61. “The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child’s tender years.”

— Juvenal

62. “Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.”

— Juvenal

63. “Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak.”

— Juvenal

64. “There’s a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor’s shame.”

— Juvenal

65. “The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”

— Juvenal

66. “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions – everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

— Juvenal

67. “Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.”

— Juvenal

68. “A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.”

— Juvenal

69. “The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.”

— Juvenal

70. “Luxury is more deadly than any foe.”

— Juvenal

71. “This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.”

— Juvenal

72. “There’s no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.”

— Juvenal

73. “The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.”

— Juvenal

74. “A man’s word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.”

— Juvenal

75. “Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune’s sake.”

— Juvenal

76. “Be a gentleman farmer.”

— Juvenal

77. “Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.”

— Juvenal

78. “A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

80. “So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.”

— Juvenal

81. “Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.”

— Juvenal

82. “Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

84. “Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.”

— Juvenal

85. “Who’d bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?”

— Juvenal

86. “The arrows are from her dowry.”

— Juvenal

87. “A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.”

— Juvenal

88. “An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”

— Juvenal

89. “Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.”

— Juvenal

90. “Satire is what closes Saturday night.”

— Juvenal

91. “No man becomes bad all at once.”

— Juvenal

92. “Seek not to shine by borrow’d lights alone.”

— Juvenal

93. “Those things please more, which are more expensive.”

— Juvenal

94. “Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

96. “A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.”

— Juvenal

97. “All things may be bought in Rome with money.”

— Juvenal

98. “Nature and wisdom always say the same.”

— Juvenal

99. “When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.”

— Juvenal

100. “Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.”

— Juvenal