Quotes from Juvenal

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

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

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

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

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

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

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

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

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

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

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

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

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.]

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

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?