Juvenal Quotes

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• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

  Juvenal

  Giving, Circus, Bread

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

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Watches, Custody

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• Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Rome

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

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• Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

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  War, Luxury

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

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  Snakes, Fellowship, Today

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

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  Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

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

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  Knowledge, Pay The Price, Talking

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

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  Order, Want, Madness

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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.

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  Two, Long, People

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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

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  Different, Crowns, Bears

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• Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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  Health, Mind, Body

  "Satires".

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• When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

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  Writing, Talent, Failing

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• We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

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  Men, Wealth, Fortune

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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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• 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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• The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
  [Lat., Semita certe
  Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]

  Juvenal

  Path, Life Is, Virtue

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• One has no protecting power save prudence.
  [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

  Juvenal

  Prudence

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

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  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Jewels, Shining

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• If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

  Juvenal

  Insults You, Insulted, Ought

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• Virtue is the only and true nobility.
  [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

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  Virtue, Nobility

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

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  Kindness, Lying, Dishonesty

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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

  Juvenal

  Heart, Men, Guilt

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

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  Marriage, Mother, Giving Up

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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