Juvenal Quotes - Page 12

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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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• An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Insane, Possession

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, VII, line 51, 1890.

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• The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
  [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Traveler, Robbers

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

  Juvenal

  Poetry, Indignation

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

  Juvenal

  Ambitious, Poverty, States

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• Savage bears agree with one another.

  Juvenal

  Savages, Bears, Agree

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• Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Bravery, Prison

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• One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Infamous, Crime

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

  Juvenal

  Money, Tears, Lost

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

  Juvenal

  Sweet, Smell, Wealth

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• Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

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• In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
  [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

  Juvenal

  Eating, Reason, Palate

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• The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

  Juvenal

  Sorrow, Finishing, Strokes

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• To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
  [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

  Juvenal

  Ambition, Tables, Height

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

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Tyrants, Envy

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• Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
  [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

  Juvenal

  Grief, Men, Blow

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

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

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• No nice extreme a true Italian knows;
  But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

  Juvenal

  Nice, Italian, Hell

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

  Juvenal

  Father, Cuisine

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