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.

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  War, Luxury

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

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Watches, Custody

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

  Juvenal

  Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

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

  Juvenal

  Order, Want, Madness

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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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• Integrity is praised, and starves.

  Juvenal

  Integrity, Virtue

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

  Juvenal

  Men, Wealth, Fortune

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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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• A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

  Juvenal

  Inheritance, Heirs, Enjoy

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• Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

  Juvenal

  Men, Common Sense, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, VIII, line 73, 1922.

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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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• 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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• Peace visits not the guilty mind.

  Juvenal

  Peace, Knowing Who You Are, Mind

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.390

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

  Juvenal

  Kindness, Lying, Dishonesty

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

  Juvenal

  Hate, Shame

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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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• In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

  Juvenal

  Writing, World, Satire

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