Quotes from Juvenal

It is hard not to write satire.

A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan.

Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, trainer, soothsayer, rope-dancer, physician, magician—he knows everything. Tell the hungry little Greek to go to heaven; he'll go.

No one becomes depraved in a moment.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

If nature refuses, indignation will produce verses.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.)

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

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

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

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)

Be gentle with the young.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

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

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

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

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.