Juvenal Quotes - Page 9

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• Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

  Juvenal

  Cry, Kindred, Lost

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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal

  Toss, Fool, Wheels

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• The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
  [Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox
  Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
  Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas
  Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.]

  Juvenal

  Life, Flower, Wine

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• For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.

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  Drinking, Age, Fleeting

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• But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
  [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

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  Wrath, Heaven, Ira

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• The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
  And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

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  Dream, Time, Feet

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• Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

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  Path, Tranquility, This Life

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• Wisdom triumphs over chance.

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  Triumph, Chance

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• It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

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  Ruins, Pillars, Fame

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• A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

  Juvenal

  Swans, Bird, Black

  'Satires' no. 6, l. 165

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• No man ever became very wicked all at once.

  Juvenal

  Men, Evil, Wicked

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• The abuse of cabmen in a block.

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  Block, Abuse

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• No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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  Character, Wicked, Human Nature

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• For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

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  Soul, Feelings, Humanity

  Juvenal (1836). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,”, p.179

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• Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
  [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

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  Peace, Savages, Bears

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

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  Tyrants, Natural, Natural Death

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• No man becomes bad all at once.

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  Men

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

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  Order, Reason

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• Satire is what closes Saturday night.

  Juvenal

  Night, Satire, Saturday Night

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• No one becomes depraved all at once.

  Juvenal

  Depraved

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• Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

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  Gold, Increase, Avarice

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• Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
  [Lat., Noli
  Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

  Juvenal

  Lions, Beard, Pluck

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• But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

  Juvenal

  Age, Incessant, Old Age

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• It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

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  Gone, Passages, Folly

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• Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

  Juvenal

  Desire, Blind, Impulse

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