Juvenal Quotes - Page 6

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• It is difficult not to write satire.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Satire, Difficult

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.204

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• So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

  Juvenal

  Virtue, Glory, Thirst

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• Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

  Juvenal

  Assuming, Crime, Audacious

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• Be gentle with the young.

  Juvenal

  Children, Attitude, Young

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• Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

  Juvenal

  Secret, Executioners, Scourge

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• Wisdom overcomes fortune.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Power, Overcoming

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• No god is absent where prudence dwells.

  Juvenal

  Prudence, Absent

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• Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

  Juvenal

  Mind, Faults, Guilty

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• Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

  Juvenal

  Forgiveness, Humble, People

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 39, 1890.

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• Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

  Juvenal

  Death, Men, Body

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 172, 1890.

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• When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
  [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Long, Delay

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• Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body.
  [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

  Juvenal

  Prayer, Health, Mind

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• To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

  Juvenal

  Gains, Expenses, Livelihood

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• Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
  [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Fortune, Conqueror

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• Let him love none and be by none beloved!

  Juvenal

  Beloved

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• Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

  Juvenal

  Healthy, Mind, Body

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• Dedicate one's life to truth.

  Juvenal

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, IV, line 91, 1890.

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Reason Why, Bliss

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• He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

  Juvenal

  House, Lasts, Disgrace

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Guilty, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 209, 1922.

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• The face, not the woman is the attraction.

  Juvenal

  Faces, Attraction

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• The arrows are from her dowry.

  Juvenal

  Arrows, Dowry

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• There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

  Juvenal

  Appearance, Reliance

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