Quotes from Juvenal

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

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

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The greatest reverence is due the young.

For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty mind! You may immediately draw proof of this—that no one rejoices more in revenge than a woman.

Honesty is praised and starves.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

Seldom do people discern Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

All the doings of mankind, their wishes, fears, anger, pleasures, joys, and varied pursuits, form the motley subject of my book.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of reason.

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Put Hannibal in the scales.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

But who is to guard the guards themselves?

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many, and grows old in their sick hearts.