Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.”

— Juvenal

102. “Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”

— Juvenal

103. “Savage bears agree with one another.”

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

— Juvenal

107. “Who is to guard the guards themselves?”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

109. “No one every suddenly became depraved.”

— Juvenal

110. “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

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

120. “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

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

123. “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

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

126. “All wish to know, but few the price will pay.”

— Juvenal

127. “Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

133. “Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.”

— Juvenal

134. “Of what avail are pedigrees?”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

144. “Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks of six porters, and exposed to view on this side and on that in his almost naked litter, and reminding you of the lounging Maecenas: one who by help of a scrap of paper and a moistened seal has converted himself into a fine and wealthy gentleman?”

— Juvenal

145. “When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.”

— Juvenal

146. “Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.”

— Juvenal

147. “The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

149. “A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal