Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.”

— Juvenal

102. “No one every suddenly became depraved.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

104. “A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber’s face.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

107. “Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

110. “Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.”

— Juvenal

111. “Savage bears agree with one another.”

— Juvenal

112. “The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.”

— Juvenal

113. “There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.”

— Juvenal

114. “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.”

— Juvenal

115. “The tongue is the vile slave’s vilest part.”

— Juvenal

116. “Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.”

— Juvenal

117. “Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.”

— Juvenal

118. “All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.”

— Juvenal

119. “When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.”

— Juvenal

120. “The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.”

— Juvenal

121. “Of what avail are pedigrees?”

— Juvenal

122. “To lay down one’s life for the truth.”

— Juvenal

123. “Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.”

— Juvenal

124. “Every great house is full of haughty servants.”

— Juvenal

125. “By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.”

— Juvenal

126. “The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!”

— Juvenal

127. “Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.”

— Juvenal

128. “He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.”

— Juvenal

129. “In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.”

— Juvenal

130. “The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.”

— Juvenal

131. “Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.”

— Juvenal

132. “No god is absent where prudence dwells.”

— Juvenal

133. “The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?”

— Juvenal

134. “The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.”

— Juvenal

135. “It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.”

— Juvenal

136. “No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.”

— Juvenal

137. “I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.”

— Juvenal

138. “Even savage animals can agree among themselves.”

— Juvenal

139. “Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess!”

— Juvenal

140. “This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.”

— Juvenal

141. “What is more cruel than a tyrant’s ear?”

— Juvenal

142. “A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.”

— Juvenal

143. “The face, not the woman is the attraction.”

— Juvenal

144. “They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.”

— Juvenal

145. “Wisdom overcomes fortune.”

— Juvenal

146. “Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.”

— Juvenal

147. “There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.”

— Juvenal

148. “But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!”

— Juvenal

149. “The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.”

— Juvenal

150. “Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.”

— Juvenal