Juvenal Quotes

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• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

  Juvenal

  Giving, Circus, Bread

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

  Juvenal

  Beauty, Beautiful, Rome

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 297, 1890.

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• Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

  Juvenal

  War, Luxury

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• Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

  Juvenal

  Men, Crime, Found

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• Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Watches, Custody

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• Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

  Juvenal

  Fear, Hate, Men

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• Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

  Juvenal

  Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

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• A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

  Juvenal

  Hate, Shame

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• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

  Juvenal

  Order, Want, Madness

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• Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

  Juvenal

  Different, Crowns, Bears

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• All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

  Juvenal

  Knowledge, Pay The Price, Talking

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• The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wife, Kind

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• Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

  Juvenal

  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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• There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

  Juvenal

  Disputes, Cases

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• The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

  Juvenal

  Love, Life, Success

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.

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• Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

  Juvenal

  Health, Mind, Body

  "Satires".

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• When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Talent, Failing

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• We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

  Juvenal

  Happiness, Overcoming, Bears

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, XII, line 20, 1922.

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• Integrity is praised, and starves.

  Juvenal

  Integrity, Virtue

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• Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

  Juvenal

  Wealthy

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• There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

  Juvenal

  Kindness, Lying, Dishonesty

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• Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

  Juvenal

  Honesty, Cold, Left

  Juvenal, Susanna Morton Braund (2004). “Juvenal and Persius”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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• One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

  Juvenal

  Crowns, Crime, Crosses

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• 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

  Two, Long, People

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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