Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.”

— Juvenal

152. “I only feel, but want the power to paint.”

— Juvenal

153. “The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.”

— Juvenal

154. “Remorse is the fruit of crime.”

— Juvenal

155. “O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.”

— Juvenal

156. “It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.”

— Juvenal

157. “Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.”

— Juvenal

158. “Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

160. “There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.”

— Juvenal

161. “Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

163. “Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.”

— Juvenal

164. “So Nature ordains; no evil example corrupts us so soon and so rapidly as one that has been set at home, since it comes into the mind on high authority.”

— Juvenal

165. “The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.”

— Juvenal

166. “He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

168. “Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.”

— Juvenal

169. “For no deity is held in such reverence amongst us as Wealth; though as yet, O baneful money, thou hast no temple of thine own; not yet have we reared altars to Money in like manner as we worship Peace and Honour, Victory and Virtue.”

— Juvenal

170. “What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?”

— Juvenal

171. “It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one’s passage money.”

— Juvenal

172. “From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?”

— Juvenal

173. “It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.”

— Juvenal

174. “The act of God injures no one.”

— Juvenal

175. “Wisdom overcomes fortune.”

— Juvenal

176. “He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.”

— Juvenal

177. “Wisdom triumphs over chance.”

— Juvenal

178. “Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.”

— Juvenal

179. “Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.”

— Juvenal

180. “Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.”

— Juvenal

181. “One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.”

— Juvenal

182. “Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.”

— Juvenal

183. “Tears ready to do duty at a minute’s notice.”

— Juvenal

184. “Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.”

— Juvenal

185. “Many a man has met death from the rushing flood of his own eloquence; others from the strength and wondrous thews in which they have trusted.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

187. “Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.”

— Juvenal

188. “Many have an irresistible itch for writing.”

— Juvenal

189. “Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.”

— Juvenal

190. “When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?”

— Juvenal

191. “To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.”

— Juvenal

192. “The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.”

— Juvenal

193. “Man, wretched man, whene’er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.”

— Juvenal

194. “Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.”

— Juvenal

195. “An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.”

— Juvenal

196. “The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.”

— Juvenal

197. “To have slaved so many years for nothing!”

— Juvenal

198. “What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?”

— Juvenal

199. “When the mischief is done the door is shut.”

— Juvenal

200. “Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?”

— Juvenal