Top 200 Juvenal Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.”

— Juvenal

202. “Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?”

— Juvenal

203. “Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.”

— Juvenal

204. “One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.”

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

209. “For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.”

— Juvenal

210. “Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?”

— Juvenal

211. “Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.”

— Juvenal

212. “Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me – Virtue alone is true nobility!”

— Juvenal

213. “Rarely they rise by virtue’s aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.”

— Juvenal

214. “This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.”

— Juvenal

215. “Men who only live to eat.”

— Juvenal

216. “See the effect of commercial intercourse.”

— Juvenal

217. “Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?”

— Juvenal

218. “Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of nature’s gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.”

— Juvenal

219. “Who will watch the watchers?”

— Juvenal

220. “Travelers with naught sing in the robber’s face.”

— Juvenal

221. “Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.”

— Juvenal

222. “Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.”

— Juvenal

223. “We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.”

— Juvenal

224. “The finishing stroke of all sorrow.”

— Juvenal

225. “Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.”

— Juvenal

226. “From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.”

— Juvenal

227. “The abuse of cabmen in a block.”

— Juvenal

228. “Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender.”

— Juvenal

229. “Benign Philosophy, by degrees, strips from us most of our vices, and all our mistakes; it is she that first teaches us the right.”

— Juvenal

230. “The love of popularity holds you in a vice.”

— Juvenal

231. “If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.”

— Juvenal