Juvenal Quotes - Page 10

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• Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
  [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

  Juvenal

  Poetry, Indignation

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• Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
  [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
  Posse volunt.]

  Juvenal

  Power, Wish, Posse

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• He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

  Juvenal

  Guilt, Crime

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• To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

  Juvenal

  Father, Cuisine

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• Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
  [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

  Juvenal

  Nature, One Thing

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• Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

  Juvenal

  Strong, Men, Sin

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.464

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• I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

  Juvenal

  Order, Reason

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• Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

  Juvenal

  Tyrants, Natural, Natural Death

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• This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

  Juvenal

  Wish, Reason, Pleasure

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• He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

  Juvenal

  Views, Public Opinion, Currents

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• Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

  Juvenal

  Cabbage, Lasts, Killing

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• The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Joy, Pleasure

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.460

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• No man becomes bad all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men

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• 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

  Desire, Vices, Add

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• The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

  Juvenal

  Sweet, Smell, Wealth

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• No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

  Juvenal

  Character, Wicked, Human Nature

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• Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

  Juvenal

  Good Luck, Luck, Winner

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• There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
  A woman's at the bottom.
  [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

  Juvenal

  Women, Cases, Bottom

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• Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest.
  [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area,
  Tantum habet et fidei.]

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Credit

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• Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

  Juvenal

  Ambitious, Poverty, States

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• Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

  Juvenal

  Patience, Desire, Rich

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• The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

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• Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears.
  [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

  Juvenal

  Money, Tears, Lost

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
  [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.]

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty, Crime

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• Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone.

  Juvenal

  Light, Shining, Borrowing

  Juvenal, Persius (1817). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.333

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